Fiction: Crossings by Alex Landrigan
Over the years, there have been a good number of books that delight with messing with your mind. Think: House of Blue Leaves. Think: The […]
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New CD from Dear Evan Hansen Actor
It’s possible you’ve never heard of Michael Lee Brown, but you’re about to—and I don’t mean just here. Michael appears on Broadway at least […]
Fiction: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
In Chloe Benjamin’s luminous new novel, The Immortalists (Putnam), four siblings, all children, seek out a woman who, they’ve heard, can tell each of them […]
SF/F: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
You’ve Never Read Anything Like Dark Matter. There. I said it. The new novel by Blake Crouch, is a terrifying, enthralling, lightning-fast, brilliant book. You […]
Book Expo 2016: Day 2
by Tony Buchsbaum Things got much more crowded — and much more musical — on day two of Book Expo 2016. There were stacks of […]
Book Expo 2016: Day 1
by Tony Buchsbaum I think of it as book publishing’s running of the bulls. Thousands of people — booksellers, assorted book professionals, and press — gather […]
Art & Culture: Holiday Bonding
It’s inevitable, really. Every 007 movie brings forth new books about the Bond phenomenon. Some are updated versions of older books, some are new. But […]
Fiction: The Fall of Princes and
Did You Ever Have a Family
The word “decade” starts the word “decadence,” and while that’s only a twist of linguistic fate, at no time was that more apt a pairing […]
Making Spaces: Two Prominent Architects Who Are the Same… and Very Different
Frank Lloyd Wright designed houses and buildings from 1886 to 1959. Thomas Heatherwick established his design studio in London in 1984 and is still working. […]
Fiction: Written in the Blood by Stephen Lloyd Jones
When I read The String Diaries earlier this year, I was simply amazed. I’d expected a thriller. What I didn’t expect was something as exceptionally […]
