Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks Keith Houston • September 24, W. W. Norton &... More >>

Bushra Rehman's first novel, Corona, is a fragmented, poetic, on-the-road adventure told from the perspective of the charismatic Razia Mirza.... More >>

In an essay from his 2009 collection, Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman reasons that because most television laugh tracks are stock... More >>

Superheroes are bigger than comic books, so now they're in movies—all movies, it seems, forever, no matter what. But in another sense... More >>

Susan Choi’s fourth novel, My Education, is an erotic, sharply written tale of a young graduate student, Regina Gottlieb, who finds herself... More >>

Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments By Gina Perry | New Press | September 3 We all think... More >>

"How angry am I? You don't want to know," begins the gripping first chapter of Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs (Knopf). The... More >>

Rachel Kushner was the girl who spent her teens sneaking onto the backs of motorcycles in California. Today, a couple of decades later, she's the... More >>

It's March, but a zigzag of skiers still winds its way down Corkscrew, Aspen Mountain's double-black-diamond run. This is the view from Justice... More >>

King of Cuba By Cristina García, May 21 Set partially in modern Havana, García's sixth novel offers a profane, rollicking sendup... More >>

No exaggeration: I coughed hot soup out of my nose while reading the new hardbound volume of deadpan dadaist Michael Kupperman’s Tales... More >>

What happens when F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson? Welcome to Kristopher Jansma's debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, a... More >>

“Authors are just notoriously difficult,” says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane’s story “How to Become a... More >>

Chief among the dark oddities of life in 18th- and 19th-century London is that the city, which produced so many dead, was itself forever in want... More >>

David Shields did it, again. He killed the novel. But it's less painful than it sounds. In How Literature Saves My Life, his eleventh book and... More >>

In an age when the price of a movie ticket can get you three hours of hang-time in Middle Earth, fantasy worlds aren’t exactly at a... More >>

Jump right into the New Year by celebrating the new issue of New York-based literary magazine n+1 at McNally Jackson on January 3. Issue number... More >>

If the book is in crisis, we didn't notice on our end. 2012 saw a ton of new offerings. Our scribes select a batch of the ones they liked... More >>

If there's a ghost fifth member of the Smiths, it might be Tony Fletcher. The 48-year-old British author, who's written biographies about Keith... More >>