Roberto Bolaño became literature’s new patron saint, Joshua Ferris goosed cubicle culture, Michael Chabon compared many things to many other things, Edwidge Danticat delivered a memoir of shocking loss.

Our picks for the best comics of 2007.

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The House That Harry Built gets a super-duper makeover.

Need an escape this winter? Try these. A sleuth-fiction travel guide.

Steve Martin’s extraordinarily calculated comedy.

As Young Frankenstein opens on Broadway, a new book by Susan Tyler Hitchcock, Frankenstein: A Cultural History, tracks the big guy—and his changing physique—through two centuries of pop culture.

World’s greatest scientist, for kids.

Not enough time to read all the National Book Award nominees for fiction before cocktail hour? Then read this.

A no-frills guide to the just-published nonfiction shelf.