What starts off as an homage to Scheherazade and her 1001 nights of storytelling quickly turns takes on a life (and story) of its own in Isabel Greenbergâs The One Hundred Nights of Hero. For her second graphic novel, the Eisner Awar… - 5 Dec 16, 10:47am -
A published screenplay is a different beast â though one no less fantastical â than full-length novel. Instead of inspiring readersâ imaginations about the worlds theyâre meant to be depicting, a pu… - 29 Nov 16, 4:53pm -
When you think of Scandinavian noir, names like Stieg Larsson, Henning Mankell, and Camilla Läckberg probably come to mind, not Anne Holt. That may be about to change. Holtâdubbed âthe godmother of modern Norwegian crime… - 29 Nov 16, 11:26am -
Through a handful of essays, Graham shares stories from her early days as a struggling actress as well as behind-the-scenes tidbits from her seven seasons (and now the Nov. 25 Netflix revival) as beloved, quick-witted Lorelai Gilmore on Gilmore Girls… - 29 Nov 16, 11:09am -
Jon Stewart left the Daily Show 15 months ago and the country hasnât been the same since. Perhaps not since the golden age of Johnny Carson had one man so ruled the nexus of entertainment and current events, and Stewartâs re… - 22 Nov 16, 4:43pm -
Star Wars fans are likely to have as curious and strained a relationship with Carrie Fisherâs The Princess Diarist as the actress has with the films: a hope for something deeper, disappointment in its glibness, and ultimately a respect a… - 22 Nov 16, 3:57pm -
At first the stories in MB Caschettaâs linked collection (following her first novel, Miracle Girls, which came out in 2014) seem like loosely plotted vignettes, windows peering into charactersâ lives for a brief moment befor… - 18 Nov 16, 11:42am -
Love and war, sex and madness, long-buried secrets and rockets to the moon: Hardly a shade of human intrigueâor a pivotal moment in 20th-century historyâgoes unexplored in Chabonâs vibrant, sprawling latest. Ins… - 17 Nov 16, 11:33am -
In the final book of Erika Johansenâs excellent Tearling trilogy, Queen Kelsea Glynn is struggling to save her besieged kingdom from a physical foe, the Red Queen, as well as from a strange supernatural force that has begun gaining… - 15 Nov 16, 3:06pm -
Letâs get it out of the way at the very beginning: The Roger Ailes stories in lawyerâturnedâFox News host Megyn Kellyâs book are every bit as lurid and appalling as you might imagine, with the forme… - 15 Nov 16, 1:51pm -
Two works explore if the internet is now entering a ‘third stage’ of civic minded realism. Also featured are a biography on Mary Wollstonecraft, a guide on space exploration lessons for capitalism, a round-up of the best thrillers — and more - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 8:13am -
After lurching from naive optimism to despairing dystopianism, is the internet now entering a ‘third stage’ of civic minded realism? - 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 12:00pm -
Despite biographical gaps, the intellectual seriousness and extraordinary resilience of the 18th-century philosopher shines through - 5 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 12:00pm -
"The First Amendment doesn't force businesses to give you a platform or pay you for your words," one Twitter user noted. - 10 days ago, 7 Jan 21, 7:57pm -
The 10 reads -- from Emily St. John Mandel, Raven Leilani, Marie-Helene Bertino and more -- that added joy, clarity and color to my year. - 22 days ago, 27 Dec 20, 8:00am -
From J.K. Rowling to Woody Allen, "American Dirt" to "My Dark Vanessa," this year's publishing controversies reflected an industry in crisis. - 25 days ago, 23 Dec 20, 2:29pm -
The new Regency-era Netflix series from Shonda Rhimes is exactly what the doctor ordered at the end of a hellish year. - 27 days ago, 21 Dec 20, 5:09pm -
The famed author was a former intelligence agent turned writer behind great works such as "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy." - 35 days ago, 13 Dec 20, 6:36pm -
She became the national youth poet laureate at age 16; six years later, she'll read her poem at Joe Biden's and Kamala Harris' historic swearing-in. - 11 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 1:00pm -
More than 250 members of the literary community signed a letter this week urging publishers not to sign book deals with anyone in the Trump administration. - 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 2:12pm -
Powell’s Books has announced that it will not place the book 'Unmasked,' by conservative author Andy Ngo, on the store's shelves following a backlash. - 3 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 12:09pm -
Ashley Audrain's first novel, 'The Push,' brings depth and nuance to the overhyped mystery tropes of the bad seed and the unreliable mother. - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 10:00am -
"Rebeldita la Alegre en el País de los Ogros," by Oriel María Siu, was inspired by the glaring gap between her family's experiences and the children's books she saw on library shelves. - 5 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 10:00am -
Since the Netflix adaptation of the revisionist Regency drama "Bridgerton" premiered on Christmas, Julia Quinn's original book series is in very high demand. - 5 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 1:36pm -
In "Glamour Ghoul," a niece of Maila Nurmi — better known as Vampira — documents the exciting, fraught Hollywood life of a bygone horror camp icon. - 6 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 11:11am -
The heroine of "Charmed Wife," the fourth novel by the ever-inventive Olga Grushin, gets a divorce and reinvents herself. Grushin has been there. - 7 days ago, 11 Jan 21, 10:00am -
Sadeqa Johnson's novel — inspired by a real historical figure — pulls no punches in its tale of an enslaved woman trying to survive and make a life for herself and her family. - 13 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 11:07am -
In his new book, the globetrotting journalist and longtime NPR contributor collects some of his favorite reports from musicians and music communities around the world. - 16 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 7:58am -
Katherine Seligman's new novel makes alive and visible the lives of people we often walk past. It's the story of a young woman surviving on the streets of San Francisco with a few friends and her dog. - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 7:55am -
Randi Pink's new novel follows a young couple, Angel and Isaiah, whose budding love is set against the backdrop of historical tragedy: the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 7:00am -
Sheehan, who died Jan. 7, broke the story of the Pentagon Papers and wrote A Bright Shining Lie, a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the Vietnam War. Originally broadcast in 1988. - 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 1:39pm -
Dr. Carl Hart's positions on drug use and availability may seem quite extreme to some — but are thoughtful and data-driven. He asserts that racism is a major factor in the negative image drugs carry. - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 8:24am -
Sarah Moss's new novel takes place over a single, unrelentingly rainy day at a vacation site in Scotland, where families complain about each other and mounting dread builds to catastrophe at the end. - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 7:00am -
In a new book, investigative reporter Annie Jacobsen explains how the U.S. has employed the use of biometric data during warfare — and questions what the government means to do with it all. - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 5:07am -
NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Olympic runner and filmmaker Alexi Pappas about her new memoir. In Bravey, Pappas shares what she has learned about confidence, self-reliance and mental health. - 4 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 4:05pm -
It can't be ignored that BE was born out of BTS's creative response to the feelings of isolation and anxiety caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. That such timeless songwriting would grow out of a situation where the members (as well as the entire worl… - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 10:43am -
Lynx concludes with one of the album's most emotionally resonant moments, an arrangement of Harry Warren's "I Wish I Knew", with apparent nods to classical composers such as Erik Satie. It's a fitting close to an album that seems to draw inspiratio… - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 9:36am -
Anthropocene?Yes. Anthropocene. The human era in millions and millions of years, when there are no longer homo sapiens on the planet. We've gone. They believe now that you will be able to look back into the sediments, that's if there's a sentient bei… - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 5:00am -
Too often, there is a divide between the dance impulse and the artistic impulse in creative music. Pedernal sounds beautiful and interesting, daring and ethereal, folky or Great Plains-y. But Alcorn, often enough, is attentive to the blues impulse… - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 11:35am -
When Ruby Rose announced she was leaving Batwoman last May, one of the biggest concerns was whether her character’s departure would affect the momentum the show had built by the end of season one. The season-two premiere answers that question right… - 2 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 9:50pm -
Back in August, during DC’s FanDome virtual convention, Zack Snyder revealed that his new HBO Max cut of Justice League—a.k.a. “the Snyder cut,” a.k.a. Zack Snyder’s Justice League—would actually be a four-hour miniseries consisting of fo… - 5 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 6:20pm -
Peter Weir’s Master And Commander: The Far Side Of The World is a movie without any Iron Men or wars in the stars (though it does have Paul Bettany, who is friends with Iron Man and was in a Star Wars), but don’t let star Russell Crowe hear you c… - 10 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 1:41pm -
As reported by Rolling Stone, music producer Phil Spector has died. Spector had been in prison since 2009 following his conviction for the murder of actress Lana Clarkson, with California’s Department Of Corrections And Rehabilitation confirming hi… - 12 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 11:49am -
Our weekly thought-starter asks you (and us) a simple question each week: What pop culture did you consume this weekend, and what did you think of it? If you have suggestions for AVQ&A questions, big or small, you can email them to us here.Read more.… - 23 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 1:00am -
An engaging study of assumed identities, a climate change adventure set in the near future, and the challenges of life on a farmHurst, £25, pp416 Continue reading... - 16 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 8:00am -
This acerbic debut, about a young black woman’s relationship with a rich white couple, will be among the year’s bestLuster sails into 2021 on clouds of praise, vapour trails of hype streaming behind it. “The most delicious novel I’ve read,”… - 19 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 5:00am -
This magnificent biography gets to the heart of Bacon as an artist and a man A year before his death in 1992, Francis Bacon quietly slipped into the Prado in Madrid, discreetly followed by its deputy director, Manuela Mena. There, he spent 90 minutes… - 22 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 2:00am -
A new biography suggests Joe Biden has picked a VP who will not shrink from tackling the toxic legacy of TrumpHistory-maker Harris will wield real power as vice-presidentThe president of the United States spent weeks recruiting then inciting a mob to… - 23 hours ago, 17 Jan 21, 1:00am -
This engaging novel evokes the radical politics of the anti-psychiatry movement Set in a leafy parish town in East Sussex, Jasper Gibson’s second novel tells the story of Tom Tuplow, a former lawyer who has endured two decades of mental ill health… - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 4:00am -
A renegade Florence Nightingale cares for the ill in a remarkable tale of compassion and combating prejudiceIn the spring of 1986, Ruth Coker Burks was in the medical centre in Little Rock, Arkansas, visiting a friend with cancer, when she noticed th… - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 2:30am -
The Stranger Times by CK McDonnell; Radio Life by Derek B Miller; Hall of Smoke by HM Long; Inscape by Louise Carey; and Ready Player Two by Ernest ClineStandup comedian and writer Caimh McDonnell’s first novel as CK McDonnell, The Stranger Times (… - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 7:00am -
Set across nine decades in an Edinburgh tenement, this haunted panorama is a dazzling outsider history Jenni Fagan’s savage 2012 debut novel, The Panopticon, was notable for characters whose resilience in the face of homelessness and socioeconomic… - 3 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 2:30am -
Tension and terror from a prolific author who’s demonstrated she’s just as comfortable penning picture books as mapping the terrain of vicious killersCatherine Jinks has demonstrated her versatility as a writer in the more than 40 books for child… - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 11:30am -
His marriages were disastrous but his words were so rousing they made strangers embrace ... a superb study of the Russian novelist The first time he fell in love, Fyodor Dostoevsky was in his mid-30s. He had written two famous novels, Poor Folk and T… - 4 days ago, 14 Jan 21, 7:00am -
Catherine E. McKinley complies a stunning Black history in "The African Lookbook" and more new book releases this week. - 2 days ago, 16 Jan 21, 7:00am -
A bound edition of materials about President Donald Trump's second impeachment will feature a foreword from former Trump attorney Michael Cohen. - 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 12:10pm -
After the Capitol Hill riot, sales of George Orwell's dystopian classic "1984" shot up, but some people seem to be confused on the book's meaning. - 5 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 11:28am -
Sen. Josh Hawley's book, "The Tyranny of Big Tech," has been dropped by publisher Simon & Schuster following Wednesday's Capitol Hill riot. - 5 days ago, 13 Jan 21, 9:58am -
"Kamala's Way" paints an empathetic portrait of the dogged prosecutor-turned-vice president-elect. Here's what we learned from the new book. - 5 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 5:49pm -
Abraham Lincoln hated slavery but he was not an abolitionist, according to historian James Oakes in his latest book, "The Crooked Path to Abolition." - 6 days ago, 12 Jan 21, 11:11am -
Actor Gabriel Byrne releases memoir "Walking With Ghosts," while Angie Thomas pens "The Hate U Give" prequel "Concrete Rose." - 9 days ago, 9 Jan 21, 9:00am -
We've rounded up the diet books that Americans have turned to most in the last 10 years, including 'The Whole30' and 'The 17 Day Diet'. - 9 days ago, 9 Jan 21, 7:00am -
Read With Jenna launched on the "Today" show in March 2019. Here's a roundup of all of Jenna Bush Hager's book club selections so far. - 9 days ago, 8 Jan 21, 1:26pm -
For centuries black Americans debated how to overcome racism—but they always emphasized human agency and individual responsibility. - 2 days ago, 15 Jan 21, 5:11pm -