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AVQ&A The books you’ve loved longest

This week, our staff and reader question addresses the books we discovered earliest in life and still have on the shelves.

May 3, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Person Of Interest “Zero Day”

Reese and Finch try to find a ghost while up to their eyebrows in attractive young women who would gladly snap your neck for looking at them funny.

May 2, 2013 | 11:30pm -
TV Club : Supernatural “The Great Escapist”

Cas is back, Kevin's dead, Herbert Viola is the scribe of God, and the show may be getting just a little bit better.

May 1, 2013 | 10:30pm -
TV Club : Other Shows Manhunt

Meet the heroes who got Osama bin Laden after 9/11 and the heroes who, if they'd been given the chance, might have shut him down before then.

May 1, 2013 | 6:00pm -
Newswire R.I.P. Deanna Durbin, child star of the 1930s and '40s

She was 91.

May 1, 2013 | 1:41pm -
TV Roundtable TV Roundtable begins anew—if that’s what you’re into

Usher in a new TV Roundtable theme with Flight Of The Conchords—if that’s what you’re into.

May 1, 2013 | 11:00am -
TV Club : Peep Show “Jurying”/“Quantocking”

Jez pulls jury duty, and Mark prepares to pop the question.

April 29, 2013 | 10:00am -
Inventory “Oh my God—you’re swingers”: 12 surprise TV encounters with the polyamorous

The A.V. Club’s weekly list.

April 29, 2013 | 12:00am -
AVQ&A Favorite pop-culture goodbyes

A staff departure has us thinking about the best and most poignant farewells in pop culture.

April 26, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Person Of Interest “In Extremis”

Fusco worries that Internal Affairs knows, literally, where the bodies are buried in a derivative, substandard episode.

April 25, 2013 | 10:15pm -
TV Club : Supernatural “Pac-Man Fever”

Felicia Day is back as Charlie the girl-geek tech genius. There was a time when that would have been the bad news.

April 24, 2013 | 10:30pm -
Inventory Welcome to the end of the world, have a Coke: 10 cases of prominent post-apocalyptic product placement

Another list from The A.V. Club.

April 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Futurama’s opera was a poignant final bow—until it wasn’t

Fry’s deal with Robot Devil gives him musical prowess that comes with a price. How ironic! (That’s not what ironic means.)

April 24, 2013 | 12:00am -
Newswire R.I.P. Allan Arbus of M*A*S*H and Greaser's Palace

He was 95.

April 23, 2013 | 4:21pm -
TV Club : Peep Show “Shrooming”/“Sistering”

Mark gallantly passes up the chance to know true love with a posh bird, and also goes to the bathroom.

April 22, 2013 | 10:00am -
Book Review Napoleon Chagnon: Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes

A famed anthropologist clears up his controversial research, flames his detractors, and reveals the vulgar practical jokes his tribal subjects played on him.

April 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
Inventory Product misplacement: 20-plus brands given unhelpful movie associations

The A.V. Club's weekly list.

April 22, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Other Shows Out There

IFC's surprisingly charming cartoon about teen angst wraps up its first season.

April 19, 2013 | 9:30pm -
Newswire R.I.P. Storm Thorgerson, artist behind much of Pink Floyd's album art

He was 69.

April 19, 2013 | 10:35am -
AVQ&A The album you’ve loved longest

A reader asks about albums we discovered early in life and still consider essential listening.

April 19, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Club : Other Shows Which Way Is The Front Line From Here? The Life And Time Of Tim Hetherington

Sebastian Junger pays tribute to the late photojournalist Tim Hetherington in a moving HBO documentary.

April 18, 2013 | 4:00pm -
Newswire Remaining episodes of Don't Trust The B---- In Apartment 23 to be released online

You won't even have to sign a one-year lease.

April 18, 2013 | 1:35pm -
Newswire ABC pulls bomb-themed episode of Castle

It's yet another instance of real life cruelly intruding on escapist TV entertainment.

April 18, 2013 | 11:30am -
Newswire R.I.P. Scott Miller, singer for Game Theory and The Loud Family

He was 53.

April 18, 2013 | 10:55am -
Newswire Obama says he didn't have anything to do with Jay-Z and Beyoncé's trip to Cuba, has "better things to do"

America, please.

April 17, 2013 | 12:10pm -
Newswire R.I.P. Pat Summerall

The longtime broadcaster and former NFL player died yesterday.

April 17, 2013 | 10:20am -
Inventory Not up in smoke: 18-plus heroic movie stoners

Another list from The A.V. Club.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
TV Roundtable Scrubs took its time to make a musical episode, but made it count

The medical comedy was bound to make an all-singing, all-dancing half-hour—all it needed was an assist from the Avenue Q guys.

April 17, 2013 | 12:00am -
Newswire R.I.P. Richard LeParmentier, Star Wars' Admiral Motti

He was 66.

April 16, 2013 | 2:52pm -
TV Club : Peep Show “Mugging”/“Sectioning”

A mugging interferes with Mark's romantic life, and mental illness gives Jez the chance to become a pub owner.

April 15, 2013 | 10:00am -

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