Book Review: What Belongs to You
/An American instructor in Bulgaria falls into a problematic infatuation with a rough-hewn rent-boy in Garth Greenwell's debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Norton Critical Lazarillo de Tormes
/The great Renaissance classic gets a spryly-translated new Norton edition
Read MoreBook Review: Blood & Steel
/In the third century, the Roman Empire teetered on the brink of implosion, with one man after another claiming power - and Harry Sidebottom's "Throne of the Caesars" series transmutes it all into first-rate historical fiction
Read MoreBook Review: The Happy Marriage
/A bedridden famous painter reflects on his unhappy marriage - and his wife gets the last word
Read MoreBook Review: Only the Stones Survive
/In Morgan Llywelyn's latest novel, the gods and goddesses of ancient Ireland take center stage
Read MoreBook Review: The Gun
/A young man out for a nighttime walk in Tokyo finds a gun. Then he thinks about it all the time. Then he thinks about getting bullets for it. And then he thinks about firing it ...
Read MoreThis Fatal Land
/Ukraine is a haunted, confounding country.Yuri Andrukhovych tries to match his prodigious technique to its complexity.
Read MoreRomantics without Rebellion
/In the 1930s, a handful of clubbable Christian scribblers got together for tea and conversation and produced both The Chronicles of Narnia and The Lord of the Rings. What on earth went on there?
Read MoreThe One Who Gets Wounded
/Adam Johnson’s stories cast us adrift in moral, emotional, even existential uncertainties; the only reassurance they offer lies in the excellence of the fiction itself.
Read MoreBook Review: The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories
/A legendary editor assembles the biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes parodies, pastiches, and homages ever collected in one volume
Read MoreBook Review: Reading The Tale of Genji
/The Tale of Genji has been enthralling readers for a thousand years; a grand new book collects some of the varied critical responses it's sparked over the centuries
Read MoreMe Am Your Smallest Fan
/Long, long before Superman appeared in Action Comics #1 in 1938, human folklore was rife with super-beings. A new book takes a look at the more-than-human.
Read MorePen and Tell Her
/Elizabeth Gilbert wants you to be creative, without fear. Whatever brings you to life, whether it’s learning a dance, writing a song, or drawing on the wall, just do it! But what if you want to review her book?
Read MoreFriends on the Patio
/Essayist, critic, novelist, and public gadfly: Gore Vidal's long career took many forms and sprang from a life as dramatic as his work. Has that life finally found a biography to do it justice?
Read MoreNever Have Hands Been So Vital to a Creature
/In Zachary Thomas Dodson's visionary and inventive debut novel, a violent past and a dystopian future are woven together into a tale of families, legacies ... and bats. Justin Hickey reviews Bats of the Republic.
Read MoreNo Laughing Matter
/In Timur Vermes’s bestselling novel, newly translated from the German, it’s 2011, the Führer is back, and he’s not happy at how the world has changed. Is it OK to find that funny?
Read MoreBook Review: The Annotated Poe
/A sumptuously illustrated and annotated new edition of the classic short works of Edgar Allan Poe
Read MoreBook Review: In the Shadow of Edgar Allen Poe
/A new anthology looks at the rich, creepy atmosphere that gave rise to the fiction of Edgar Allan Poe - and then was dominated by him as by no other author
Read MoreBook Review: Cleopatra's Shadows
/An effective debut novel looks at the story of famous Cleopatra's much less-famous sisters
Read MoreBook Review: 100 Years of the Best American Short Stories
/A big new volume commemorates a century of "Best American Short Stories," which began - as with all worthy things - in Boston a long time ago
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