Books Features
By Scott Martelle
Twain - character assassin? His 450-page rant against a former personal assistant receives some historical context and credibility that...
By Susan Salter Reynolds
The author explores the cruelties of war through the eyes of a Korean War orphan.
By Ed Park
A review of "Real Unreal: Best American Fantasy Volume 3."
By Susan Salter Reynolds
Plus: 'Breakfast With Socrates,' 'Still Life' and 'Ripe.'
By Michael Harris
An ancient cosmic conflict leads to a showdown here on Earth.
By Scott Esposito
A Japanese novelist tries to understand why his longtime filmmaker friend committed suicide, raising issues of art, postwar identity and...
By Tim Rutten
A curiously empty memoir of what went on in George W. Bush's White House by the former president's political strategist.
By Susan Carpenter
Authors may gear their novels toward the junior and senior high crowd, but adults are snapping up the books, often about misfit teens or...
By Ross Simonini
Must everything be turned into pop cultural slogans? the poet asks in his new collection.
By Dinah Lenney
A poignant memoir of how grandparents fill the gap left when their daughter dies.
By Wendy Smith
Nathanael West and Eileen McKenney were fun-loving souls who married only to die soon after.
By Sarah Weinman
Carol Goodman's "Arcadia Falls" finds something sinister behind a school's idyllic setting.