Books

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  Book Review Neil Gaiman: Unnatural Creatures

  A fantasy master curates a lumpy group anthology about fantasy beasties.

  April 22, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Book Review Manil Suri: The City Of Devi

  Unlikely partners seek out their mutual lover in terrorist-torn India in this colorful but unlikely novel.

  April 22, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  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 -

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  Big Issues Daredevil: The world’s unluckiest superhero

  Daredevil’s rough times in the present and future lead to spectacular stories.

  April 19, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  NOT OPTIONAL A baseball book, a soft drink, DMX in trouble, and a killer iPad app

  Some entertainment is optional. These aren’t.

  April 19, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Newswire Chicago, join The A.V. Club and Jen Kirkman to celebrate her new book, I Can Barely Take Care Of Myself

  Don’t tell her she’ll change her mind.

  April 19, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Newswire Superheroes get spanked as Fantagraphics, Image lead the 2013 Eisner Award nominations 

  Chris Ware, you bet.

  April 17, 2013 | 11:20am -

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  Newswire Pulitzer Prize committee deigns to recognize fiction this year

   Fiction is officially pretty okay again.

  April 15, 2013 | 5:20pm -

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  Book Review Jonathan Cott: Days That I’ll Remember: Spending Time With John Lennon And Yoko Ono

  A Rolling Stone writer swoons over John Lennon and angrily defends Yoko Ono in this memoir of meetings and interviews with the ex-Beatle and his wife.

  April 15, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Michael Moss: Salt Sugar Fat: How The Food Giants Hooked Us

  This entertaining, horrifying look at food-industry tricks and secrets is long on chilling reveals, but short on fixes or answers.

  April 15, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Book Review William Friedkin: The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir

  One of the 1970s’ premier directors exorcises his past with self-aware frankness.

  April 15, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  NOT OPTIONAL A self-published sci-fi smash, a Mad Men fashion blog, and 3 more must-know entertainments

  Some entertainment is optional. These aren’t.

  April 12, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Big Issues Thor soars above the superhero crowd in Thor and Uncanny Avengers

  The prospect of an immortal hero opens up all time and space for infinitely varied stories.

  April 12, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  AVQ&A Willful cultural ignorance

  Our weekly reader-and-staffer question looks at art and information we’ve deliberately avoided because we don’t want it in our heads.

  April 12, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Silly Little Show-Biz Book Club Bill Maher’s True Story tries to say something profound about stand-up, but fails spectacularly

  For a famously smart guy, Maher makes a lot of incredibly stupid mistakes in his authorial debut.

  April 11, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Newswire ComiXology attempts to clean up Apple's bukkake mess

   It wasn't actually Apple's fault that Saga #12 got banned.

  April 10, 2013 | 3:17pm -

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  Newswire Apple bans issue of Brian K. Vaughan's Saga because of bukkake robot face

   So that's where Apple draws the line.

  April 9, 2013 | 5:33pm -

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  Comics Panel New comics releases include alternate-history fantasy-horror and a colorful foodie memoir

  Also reviewed: Valiant’s first crossover, East Of West, and the latest Devastator.

  April 9, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Two weeks later, that XKCD comic is still telling an ongoing story 

  At this point, the comic has become a short animated film, approaching 500 images posted at intervals.

  April 8, 2013 | 10:25am -

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  Book Review David Toomey: Weird Life: The Search For Life That Is Very, Very Different From Our Own

  From SETI to the ocean depths, a writer sums up how scientific exploration has expanded the definition of “alive.”

  April 8, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Carol Burnett: Carrie And Me: A Mother-Daughter Love Story

  A comedian’s memorial to her daughter takes the form of a scrapbook of her life and work.

  April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Book Review Melanie Warner: Pandora’s Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over The American Meal

  An experiment to see how quickly processed foods decay becomes an eye-opening book about the things we eat that aren’t really food anymore.

  April 8, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire R.I.P. Carmine Infantino, a legendary force in comic books

   He was 87.

  April 5, 2013 | 2:30pm -

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  Memory Wipe Revisiting fate and parental lies in real life and the Black Cauldron books

  An adult writer re-examines Lloyd Alexander’s fantasy series The Chronicles Of Prydain, and finds personal resonance.

  April 5, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Big Issues Swamp Thing gets a fresh start by remembering that nature is scary

  Charles Soule and Kano launch their run with a chilling issue that takes Swamp Thing back to his roots.

  April 5, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  AVQ&A What are you reading this month? (April 2013)

  We look at some of the month’s releases and ask our staff and readers what books they’re currently exploring.

  April 3, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Newswire New study finds that Shakespeare was a tax-evading, grain-hoarding asshole

  Yep, he was kind of a dick.

  April 1, 2013 | 4:00pm -

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  Newswire The A.V. Club's Jason Heller was nominated for a Hugo award

  We always knew he could do it

  April 1, 2013 | 3:10pm -

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  Book Review David Shields: How Literature Saved My Life

  This quick-hitting collection of erudite thoughts on many topics is the literary equivalent of a Girl Talk album.

  April 1, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Amity Gaige: Schroder

  Based on a famous case of false identity and family kidnapping, this novel tells a rich story, but pulls too many punches.

  April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -