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Book Review Brandon W. Jones: All Woman And Springtime

This debut novel follows two North Korean women through self-discovery and sex slavery, fending off exploitation with strong characterization.

May 14, 2012 | 12:00am -
The Gameological Society Moms play games, too—most of them do, anyway

The Gameological moms tell us what they’ve been playing.

May 11, 2012 | 9:30am -
Book Review Regina O’Melveny: The Book Of Madness And Cures

An ambitious debut chases a woman chasing her father across Renaissance Europe, but never catches up long enough to determine its own intentions.

May 7, 2012 | 12:01am -
The Gameological Society In a blaze of glory: 14 games that reward creative self-destruction

Studies in video game slapstick.

April 24, 2012 | 9:30am -
Book Review Elizabeth Bear: Range Of Ghosts

A trilogy launch from an award-winning fantasy veteran spends a lot of time on setup and moral clarity.

April 23, 2012 | 12:01am -
Book Review Rachel Maddow: Drift

War is hell, but it’s a hell we’ve learned to live with. For America, perpetual conflict has become the status quo.

April 9, 2012 | 12:01am -
The Gameological Society First-person shooters: 21 games that cast players as photographers

The framing of gaming.

April 3, 2012 | 9:30am -
Book Review Jessica Maria Tuccelli: Glow

A winning debut starts in 1941 and heads backward from there.

March 28, 2012 | 12:03pm -
Book Review Toby Lester: Da Vinci’s Ghost

A contributing Atlantic editor followed the 1,500-year trail between a Roman architect and Leonardo da Vinci, and wrote this book about both of them.

March 7, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Game Review Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2

Remember part one? Get ready for déjà vu.

March 5, 2012 | 12:00am -
Sawbuck Gamer March 5, 2012

Our periodic roundup of new cheap or free videogames looks at young love at a school for the disabled, a zombie corporation, and chain reactions in the sky.

March 5, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Cristina Alger: The Darlings

A debut thriller about a sprawling, wealthy family addresses a financial catastrophe lacks depth or worthwhile characters.

February 22, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Book Review Eowyn Ivey: The Snow Child

In this touching debut, which mirrors a Russian fairy tale, a couple builds a child out of snow, then deals with the unlikely results.

February 15, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Game Review Kingdoms Of Amalur: Reckoning

You might have played this sort of game before but this is a good excuse to play it again.

February 13, 2012 | 12:00am -
Game Review Scarygirl

A graphic-novel-derived game gets the look right, but not the gameplay.

January 30, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Lawrence M. Krauss: A Universe From Nothing

A lecture explaining how science proves the universe doesn’t need God became a viral hit via YouTube, but is harder to follow in book form.

January 25, 2012 | 12:02pm -
Sawbuck Gamer January 23, 2012

An infamous boss from the NES era gets his star turn.

January 23, 2012 | 12:00am -
Game Review Star Wars: The Old Republic

Star Wars gets an MMO to call its own.

January 9, 2012 | 12:00am -
Best of The best books we read in 2011

What we read, and why we loved it, in 2011.

December 28, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Best of The best games of 2011

The A.V. Club’s games writers offer their consensus picks and some personal favorites.

December 27, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Game Review King Of Fighters XIII

Things don’t change much the 13th time around for a venerable fighting franchise.

December 5, 2011 | 12:01am -
Game Review The Cursed Crusade

There’s no compelling reason to bother with this repetitive, sloppy quest game.

October 31, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Richard Dawkins: The Magic Of Reality

The bestselling author of The Selfish Gene and The God Delusion brings his atheism to a younger crowd with this science book, extensively illustrated by Dave McKean.

October 12, 2011 | 12:03pm -
Sawbuck Gamer October 10, 2011

The A.V. Club’s regular roundup of bargain-bin videogames.

October 10, 2011 | 12:00pm -
Game Review Solatorobo: Red The Hunter

Cats and dogs living together?

October 10, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Vanessa Diffenbaugh: The Language Of Flowers

The Victorian language of flowers gets more attention than the actual characters in this problematic debut.

September 28, 2011 | 12:02pm -
Game Review Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine

A new computer franchise launch for the miniatures game pumps up the action for newbies and old hands alike.

September 19, 2011 | 12:00am -
Book Review Christopher Buehlman: Those Across The River

A creepy horror debut pits unknown monsters against a well-drawn but foolish small town.

September 14, 2011 | 12:03pm -
Book Review Mark Lawrence: Prince Of Thorns

A despicable protagonist kicks off a fantasy series by raping and killing his way across a contested country.

August 31, 2011 | 12:01pm -
Sawbuck Gamer August 29, 2011

The A.V. Club’s regular roundup of bargain-bin videogames. In this edition: Wesley Snipes brings his incarcerated star power to the iPhone.

August 28, 2011 | 11:59pm -

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