#Literary Fiction

Fresh Ink: July 23, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan (Hogarth)  A few months shy of her sixteenth birthday, Anais Hendricks sits in the ...

A Beginner’s Guide to Cormac McCarthy

Today is Cormac McCarthy’s 80th birthday, and I thought this was the perfect opportunity to get to know more about ...

Trailer for MADDADDAM by Margaret Atwood

The final installment in Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam trilogy (which began with Oryx and Crake and The Year of the Flood) is ...

The 10 Best Top 100 Book Lists

What makes a great Top 100 book list, in my view, don't only include your favorite books. They also make you think. Here's ten of the best book lists.

Fresh Ink: July 9, 2013

In Fresh Ink, we highlight and discuss some of the week’s most exciting new books. HARDBACK RELEASES Memories of a ...

Pride and Prejudice Meets Parks and Recreation: A Mashup Universally Acknowleged

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Pride and Prejudice and Parks and Recreation is the greatest mash-up of all time.

Fresh Ink: July 2, 2013

HARDBACK RELEASES  The Humans by Matt Haig (Simon & Schuster) When an extraterrestrial visitor arrives on Earth, his first impressions of the ...

Cover Face-Off: THE ROUND HOUSE by Louise Erdrich

One of the biggest books of 2012 gets a new look for its September 24th paperback release. While I find the ...

Five Books to Watch For in July

Maybe it’s something about summer, but the books I was drawn to for this feature are about travel: to Shanghai, ...

Riot Round-Up: The Best Books We Read in June

We asked our contributors to share the best book they read this month. We’ve got fiction, nonfiction, YA, memoir, and ...