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Interview: Alexander Zaitchik

Alexander Zaitchik deconstructs Glenn Beck
It's hard to find words to describe how equally salacious and asinine it is that, on August 28, Fox News merrymaker Glenn Beck is hosting a Tea Party rally on the National Mall to coincide with the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | August 23, 2010

Review: The World That Never Was

Lies your teacher told you about anarchism
Some marketing wizard gave Oxford-based historian Alex Butterworth's exhaustive history of the international anarchist movement a fun title it doesn't deserve.

By: CLIF GARBODEN | August 17, 2010

Perfect worlds

J.C. Hallman's utopias
In utopia, everything is wonderful. Reading about it usually isn't.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | August 15, 2010

A good walk

Gail Caldwell remembers Caroline Knapp
Before Caroline Knapp died of lung cancer — in 2002, at age 42 — she'd gone bestseller with the most private of torments: her alcoholism (in Drinking: A Love Story ) and her anorexia ( Appetites: Why Women Want ).

By: AMY FINCH | August 09, 2010

Interview: Paolo Bacigalupi talks about The Windup Girl

Paolo Bacigalupi talks about The Windup Girl

By: ARAFAT KAZI | August 06, 2010

Ellis's endgame

Less than Less Than Zero
A quarter-century after the debut of Less Than Zero , in what amounts to a self-referential epilogue, Ellis's spoiled children have grown into spoiled adults, and the magnets in their moral compasses rest askew.

By: CARRIE BATTAN | July 27, 2010

Interview: Carl Hiaasen

Rounding up the usual suspects
Novelist Carl Hiaasen likes to create scenarios where very bad and tremendously satisfying things happen to despicable people: crooked politicians, real-estate scammers, environment despoilers, greedy bastards of all stripes.

By: JIM SULLIVAN | July 22, 2010

Road again

Joseph Mattson's wild ride
Joseph Mattson's second Los Angeles–spawned novel is at least up front about where it's headed: "Here I was, doing ninety on the Santa Monica Freeway with a quart of whiskey shoved into my crotch and my dead neighbor in the trunk."

By: STEVE MILLER | July 21, 2010

Slideshow: Harvey Pekar

Artifacts from the David Bieber archives of the late comic-book writer's work
Artifacts from the David Bieber archives of the late comic-book writer's work

By: DAVID BIEBER | July 15, 2010

Review: Common Nonsense: Glenn Beck and the Triumph of Ignorance

Alexander Zaitchik methodically unravels Glenn Beck's Christmas sweater
Common Nonsense effectively and in detail confirms what thinking folks already knew but may have had difficulty explaining: Beck, equal parts Mormon and moron, is a towering ignoramus and a shameless bigot.

By: CHRIS FARAONE | July 16, 2010

Harvey Pekar: 1939 - 2010

In memoriam
Probably the echt moment for me in all the volumes of Harvey Pekar's American Splendor comics comes when the eternally bedraggled and grumpy Harvey receives a fresh package of review vinyl from Downbeat magazine and grumbles about getting yet another Sonny Stitt record.

By: JON GARELICK | July 16, 2010

Interview: Naomi Novik on her Temeraire series

From Neverwinter Nights to the Napoleonic War — with dragons
With her sixth Temeraire fantasy, Tongues of Serpents , out this week, New York Times bestseller Naomi Novik takes on dragons, Peter Jackson, and the beginning of the end of a beloved series.

By: CLEA SIMON | July 16, 2010

Down and dirty

The race to find the world's deepest hole
For most sane people, caving is an inexplicable pastime. What, after all, is the appeal of claustrophobic crawls, frigid swims, extreme heights (even underground), oceans of insects, no toilets, and ever-present, absolute darkness?

By: KENNY WOOTON | July 13, 2010

Tana French gets her characters where they live

Faithful Place proves a rich mystery
Frank Mackey's life changed when he was 19. The year was 1985, and he and his girlfriend Rosie Daly were about to run away together.

By: CLEA SIMON | July 06, 2010

Maximum pleasure

Ann Beattie hasn’t been sleeping
Ann Beattie emerged in the 1970s in the pages of the New Yorker with a cast of post-grad characters who smoked pot, bummed around, fell in and out of relationships, and faced the world with a shrug and the latest rock and roll on the stereo.

By: JON GARELICK | July 05, 2010

Interview: Sebastian Junger

Getting up close and personal with Restrepo
Not even being held captive by armed militants in Nigeria satisfied The Perfect Storm author Sebastian Junger's need for dangerous assignments.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 30, 2010

Dutch courage

David Mitchell's Jacob de Zoet revises historical fiction
When you've already written a novel like Cloud Atlas , which travels from 1850 to the apocalyptic future and back again, writing a historical novel might be redundant.

By: PETER KEOUGH | June 22, 2010

Book bag for the dog days

Load up your Goodman, Gordimer, Franzen, Moody, and more
Planning to be lazy and let it all go this summer? Sorry, there are too many good books to read. From Allegra Goodman's The Cookbook Collector to Richard Rhodes's The Twilight of the Bombs and Jean Valentine's Break the Glass , you'll find tomes galore to keep you occupied through Labor Day.

By: BARBARA HOFFERT | June 16, 2010

Beyond belief

Three literary fantasies for summer — including a true one
One of the purposes of escapist reading is to feed our daydreams.

By: CHARLES TAYLOR | June 16, 2010

Girls talk

Sloane Crosley and Emily Gould tell all
There's only one thing more dangerous than being an ambitious, attractive twentysomething female stumbling through the publishing industry, attempting to secure quantifiable career success and, also, a fantastic boyfriend: the impulse to write about it.

By: SHARON STEEL | June 20, 2010

Good grief

Deborah Noyes’s séance in Captivity
Grief bogs one down, sapping energy and confusing even the simplest thoughts with the static of regrets.

By: CLEA SIMON | June 09, 2010

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