{Given my friend designed the cover, and first told me about the mystery man behind the scenes in Rome who's the subject of the book, I ...

  As in how we Americans mispronounce God-ot. in our attempt to sound, well, more French, as that Beckett would have wanted us, uh, to, but...

First off, this author’s cousin Roddy was keyboardist for Faith No More and currently plays with the endu...

Based on the author's mid-1990s stay with her Chinese host family, Kaitlin Solomine's debut novel adapts her experiences on a Fulb...

This book by a Caltech physicist continues his series of semi-popularizations of cutting-edge theory. The Big Picture may not reveal much ...

Three-fourths of this mission, which was founded in 1771 and had been refurbished for its re-opening this week, after considerable inves...

 I heard of but never heard Bitch Magnet, the indie band that made Fine a bit famous, but reading his narrative of a quarter-century trying ...

  Having worked at two for-profits, then attaining her sociology doctorate writing on this cohort, Tressie McMillan Cottom carries the ...

  While at least some who discover J.R.R. Tolkien’s works as young people go on to study medieval litera...

  Eight novels into his career, David Mitchell's established himself. You can count on his fiction to take you into a multicultural spa...

I chose this on a whim as it was so far out of my usual orbit. No recollections of the old sod or stickball, and barely any for altar boys ...

  Atlases of Middle-Earth, guides and art, tributes and monographs, films and “cosplay” proliferate. What John Garth adds to the ever-pro...

I excerpt part of a letter I sent my friend in Ireland. It expresses my state of mind. I edited and revised a bit, but for the record,...