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Book Review Jim Yardley: Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, An American Coach, And Two Cultures Clashing

A Pulitzer-winning critic compellingly examines Chinese basketball, as imported NBA figures and Western coaching styles cause a culture clash.

February 22, 2012 | 12:02pm -
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 Ben Marcus: The Flame Alphabet

The experimental writer known for publicly battling Jonathan Franzen over writing style returns after a decade with his most accessible book to date.

February 22, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Book Review Matt Ruff: The Mirage

A daring novel re-imagines 9/11 as 11/9—an American terrorist attack on the world-dominating United Arab States—in a story that echoes Philip K. Dick.

February 22, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Newswire Paramount sues to stop that Godfather prequel from being published

Paramount is suing to stop publication of Mario Puzo’s would-be Godfather prequel, The Family Corleone, the novel that aims to fill in the blanks you’ve long since inferred about how Don Corleone went from the street hustler pla...

February 21, 2012 | 5:15pm -
Newswire Goosebumps author R.L. Stine published a horror story on Twitter

R.L. Stine—creator of the Goosebumps series that allowed many a kid to escape the horrors of middle school with comforting tales of murder—has written so many best-selling stories by now that he could pretty much just give them away. A...

February 20, 2012 | 3:23pm -
feature Superhero & mainstream comics—February 2012

Brian K. Vaughan returns with the first chapter of an epic fantasy.

February 20, 2012 | 12:00am -
This Week In Local “Satanic” Girl Scouts, music-fest lineup leaks, and the A-to-Z of Con Air

February 17, 2012 | 12:00am -
Book Review Anne Rice: The Wolf Gift

After a sojourn in quasi-religious writing, the Vampire Lestat author returns to supernatural horror, with frustratingly conflict-free results.

February 15, 2012 | 12:03pm -
Book Review Orson Scott Card: Shadows In Flight

The Shadow branch of the classic Ender’s Game series continues, to diminishing returns, and via a frustrating dead end.

February 15, 2012 | 12:02pm -
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 -
Book Review Nathan Englander: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank

The author of The Ministry Of Special Cases proves that it’s possible to spin short-story gold out of the straw of a single endlessly repeated premise.

February 15, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Newswire R.I.P. John Severin, Mad Magazine and Cracked artist

The comics artist John Severin, who died earlier this week at the age of 90, was one of the last living, working links to the golden age of pre-Code comic books, as exemplified by Harvey Kurtzman's Mad and the other output from the EC Comics line....

February 15, 2012 | 9:24am -
For Our Consideration Whither Micronauts? On the long-delayed return to inner space

Some toys last forever. Others…

February 15, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire The Walking Dead's Robert Kirkman being sued by original illustrator and former best friend

Last week was an unusually contentious one in the world of comics (even for the normally contentious world of comics), and Friday evening brought news of one more legal battle that we saw but were like, “Damn, not another one. Let’s just talk...

February 13, 2012 | 10:34am -
Newswire Marvel forces Ghost Rider creator to stop saying he's Ghost Rider creator

After nearly five years of bitter and depressing legal back-and-forth only slightly ameliorated by the fact that it concerned a biker with a flaming skull, Marvel has won a lawsuit that forces Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich to stop identifying...

February 10, 2012 | 4:45pm -
This Week In Local Busdriver, Clint Eastwood's Super Bowl commercial, and a Jeffrey Dahmer movie

Jeffrey Dahmer and Clint Eastwood both make this week’s local round-up.

February 9, 2012 | 11:59pm -
Newswire Lemony Snicket "doesn't" want you to know about his new book series, wink wink

So far, reverse psychology has been an effective marketing tool for Lemony Snicket, the dour kid-lit alter ego of writer Daniel Handler.

February 9, 2012 | 2:00pm -
Newswire Portlandia to become a book that, yes, may or may not have a bird on it

In the tradition of Pawnee: The Greatest Town In America and Stuckeyville: That Place Where That TV Show ‘Ed’ Was Set, Remember That? (self-published), IFC’s Portlandia is getting its very own tie-in book due Novemb...

February 9, 2012 | 1:24pm -
Book Review Elmore Leonard: Raylan

The venerable crime writer returns to the world and character that spawned the FX show Justified, but the series renders his characters better than he does.

February 8, 2012 | 12:03pm -
Book Review Will McIntosh: Hitchers

When the dead start possessing the living after a cataclysmic terrorist attack, a comic-strip writer has some tough moral choices to make.

February 8, 2012 | 12:02pm -
Book Review John Green: The Fault In Our Stars

A spectacular young-adult novel addresses teenagers with cancer in a direct, insightful way, rather than playing for sympathy.

February 8, 2012 | 12:01pm -
Book Review Tom McCarthy: Men In Space

An interim novel from the author of Remainder and C brings its story of an art heist in the Czech Republic to the U.S. for the first time.

February 8, 2012 | 12:00pm -
Newswire Alan Moore stands up for stealing other people's characters that are not Alan Moore's

Proving that a free-for-all, web-based interview can be a success so long as the subject is willing to discuss anything and is also Alan Moore, Alan Moore participated in a prolonged video Q&A over the weekend as a fundraiser for Cleveland’s pr...

February 6, 2012 | 3:32pm -
Comics Panel Graphic novels & art comics—late February and early March 2012

The late Harvey Pekar tells the story of Cleveland, a childhood friend tells the story of Jeffrey Dahmer, and more.

February 6, 2012 | 12:00pm -
This Week In Local An LOLcat revelation, Bon Iver on SNL, and welcoming Indianapolis

Welcoming Indianapolis and a startling LOLcat revelation

February 3, 2012 | 12:00am -
Newswire Ask Michael Ian Black your relationship questions

The comedian/author/actor/podcast host will answer questions for our annual Valentine's Day issue.

February 1, 2012 | 2:35pm -
Book Review Shalom Auslander: Hope: A Tragedy

A Jew and a German confront each other in a town famed for its lack of history in this morbidly entertaining, metaphor-rich book from the author of Beware Of God.

February 1, 2012 | 12:03pm -
Book Review Elliot Perlman: The Street Sweeper

A historian with access to a lost cache of Holocaust stories and a Pole with a need to share his past form parallel stories in this mystery-esque drama.

February 1, 2012 | 12:02pm -
Book Review Ben Hellwarth: Sealab: America’s Forgotten Quest To Live And Work On The Ocean Floor

No, this book isn’t about the Cartoon Network animated series, it’s about 60 years of attempts to create a real-life underwater lab—with fatal results.

February 1, 2012 | 12:01pm -