Book Review: The New Annotated Frankenstein
/Mary Shelley's indomitable horror classic gets a sumptuous new annotated edition.
Read MoreAt Play with Clay
/Ever since Mary Shelley wrote her weird masterpiece two centuries ago, it's been impossible to keep a good monster down. In the Shadow of Frankenstein gives readers two dozen pastiches that keep the Creature alive.
Read MoreHow Pleasant to Know Mr. Lane
/The best of Anthony Lane's many New Yorker reviews and essays were collected in Nobody's Perfect, a big volume that amply displays this writer's wit and subtlety.
Read MoreByronic Interludes
/The larger-than-life exploits of Lord Byron drew an erratic and daunting trajectory through the lives of those nearest him. A trilogy of novels attempts to go where so many biographies have gone before.
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