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New in Paperback: Palo Alto
/The paperback release of the Hollywood heartthrob's debut story collection
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/The latest in the ongoing adventures of Shakespeare - JOHN Shakespeare, master-spy to Queen Elizabeth I.
Read MoreIn Paperback: Tarzan of the Apes
/A handsome new paperback of the book that gave birth to a multi-million dollar industry: the modern-day myth that is "Tarzan of the Apes."
Read MoreIn Paperback: A Princess of Mars
/A paperback re-issue of the first instalment in the adventures of John Carter, gentleman of Virginia and superhuman warlord of distant Mars!
Read MoreBook Review: Pirates of the Narrow Seas
/Lt. Peter Thornton of the 18th century British Navy has a problem more threatening than storms or pirates or cannon-fire: he's gay, and he's in love with his captain.
Read MoreBook Review: Exorcising Hitler
/A new history examines the problems the Allies faced when they took on the job of occupying a defeated Germany in 1945.
Read MoreBook Review: Lost in Lexicon
/A canny and engaging children's book about a pair of enterprising kids trying to make sense of a magical realm where their homework actually matters.
Read MoreBook Review: The Water Margin
/A great translation of one of the "Four Great Classical Chinese Novels" is given a carefully-revised and gorgeously produced reprint by Tuttle Publishing.
Read MoreGraphic Novel Review: The Marvels Project
/Unfamiliar characters like the Angel, the Phantom Bullet, and John Steele join the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and Captain America in the birth of the Marvel Age of Super-Heroes
Read MoreOh, the futility! Adapting Jane Eyre
/Its early readers found the novel shocking, unfeminine, un-Christian, revolutionary. So why are film adaptations of Jane Eyre so studiously inoffensive?
Read MoreThe Old Stories
/Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Sure, but should they steal whole characters? plots? authors? Robert Coover and the writers of Re: Telling steal it all and let their readers sort it out.
Read MoreA Raging Appetite
/Food writing today requires guts - often quite literally. Gabrielle Hamilton's memoir transcends gross-out theatrics to portray a life in food, from abandonment to something like fulfillment.
Read MoreMichigan Falls
/Scott Sparling's first novel Wire to Wire has rushed up at the reading world full of glue-sniffers, freight-hoppers, wedgeheads, and knives midair -- so what's it really about?
Read MoreThe Zither and the Worm
/French trailblazer Raymond Roussel created teeming and fertile worlds from a secret process of wordplay. Two of his most spectacular works are coming back into print after a long, undeserved absence.
Read MoreThe Summery Night Before the Frost
/Best known today as the muse and lover of Edna St. Vincent Millay, George Dillon was a formidable poet and personality in his own right, and one well worth rereading.
Read MoreA Question, an Answer, and a Death
/Cinema lore has it that Jean-Luc Godard read only the first and last three pages of King Lear before making his film adaptation. Lianne Habinek suggests this may have helped him get at the play's essence.
Read MoreA Brief for the Defense
/If you're hoping for a heartfelt mea culpa from an architect of two disastrous wars, this isn't it. Donald Rumsfeld's memoir is shallow at best, cynically self-serving at worst.
Read MoreWhat’s the Big Idea?
/FSG gave fifty poets almost no time at all to write a nation-and-epoch-spanning poem based on ancient Japanese techniques. What could possibly go wrong? Or, more interestingly, what went right?
Read MoreIt’s A Mystery: “Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
/The seventh in Craig Johnson’s award-winning Sheriff Walt Longmire series, Hell Is Empty proves that when it comes to putting a contemporary spin on the lore of the old West, few writers do it better.
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