- November 11, 1996
- Meet Your Neighbor, Thomas Pynchon
While scholars speculated that he had lost his mind, or taken to the road, the world's most successful media fugitive, author of Gravity's Rainbow, and The Crying of Lot 49, has been living quietly among us. A literary investigation.
- June 23, 2008
- Is This Book Worth Getting?
A no-frills guide to the just-published fiction shelf.
- June 23, 2008
- Comic-Book Hero
Young Dash Shaw has written the graphic novel of the year—and it’s not even autobiographical.
- June 2, 2008
- A Warming Trend
Book-jacket designers all scream for you-know-what.
- May 26, 2008
- Dungeon Master: David Benioff
In 2001, David Benioff made a few nice Hollywood deals and signed a three-book package with Viking.
- May 12, 2008
- In Cold War Blood: Tom Rob Smith
Think of Tom Rob Smith’s debut novel, Child 44, as a prequel to Martin Cruz Smith’s classic mystery Gorky Park.
- May 5, 2008
- The Memory Addict
Augusten Burroughs doesn’t just write about his past. He holds séances.
- April 28, 2008
- Flava of the Month
At the Chateau Marmont with Margaret B. Jones, L.A.’s memoirist of gang life.
- April 28, 2008
- Is This Book Worth Getting?
A no-frills guide to five just-published first novels.
- April 21, 2008
- Wikipedia Watch
Archive junkie Nicholson Baker recently lauded Wikipedia in The New York Review of Books. Cool. But can you match him and other writers to their Wiki bios?