Edge-of-your-seat-type books are trickling further down the age range – not quite horror, but certainly creepy and thrill-laden. Two gripping summer reads stand out, probably best serving the key stage...
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Some of their work has aged poorly. If the Rough South crowd was not exclusively a boys’ club, it was a white one. I wish a few of these writers...
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This month’s column is all about firsts — debut authors, new series beginnings or both. I make it a point to pick up books by new authors whenever I can....
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The real world is messy; making it seem more orderly is the calling of the law-and-order judge, the brilliant but difficult diagnostician and the cult leader. Potential cult members are...
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"Elegies are the best love stories because they're the whole story," Sarah Manguso writes in her fierce second novel, Liars, an autopsy of a bitterly disappointing marriage, from first meeting...
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HIM, Geoff Ryman (Angry Robot 978-1915202673, trade paperback, 366pp, $18.99) December 2023 The subgenre of SF that deals with religion is a copious, healthy, and growing one, albeit not as...
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The first living critic I can remember looking up to was Christine Smallwood. When I was in graduate school, I would read her “New Books” column in Harper’s and her...
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This year’s Socialist Register outlines increasing geopolitical instability and the dangers of catastrophic war, which only socialist organising can counter, finds John Clarke As the title suggests, this year’s Socialist...
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The opening of “Hillbilly Elegy,” published in 2016, hits different now: “My name is J.D. Vance, and I think I should start with a confession: I find the existence of...
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Courtesy mcDJ Donald Glover doesn’t do anything by half, and the massive multifaceted project he’s launched for what he says is the final statement from Childish Gambino, the long-running alter-ego...
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