Books

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  Book Review Glen Weldon: Superman: The Unauthorized Biography

  A smart, savvy overview of 75 years of Superman tracks how the character has changed to meet the needs of every era.

  April 1, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Big Issues X-Men: Legacy explores the strange inner struggle of an unexpected hero

  Simon Spurrier and Tan Eng Huat’s bizarre, complex series looks at the X-Universe from a different angle.

  March 29, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Newswire Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger is in rehab now for his Gucci addiction

   He's getting the help he needs and can more than afford.

  March 28, 2013 | 3:12pm -

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  Inventory 7 essential books about comedy by comedians

  Another list from The A.V. Club.

  March 27, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire Read This: The author of Friday Night Lights wrote a crazy essay about dabbling in S&M and buying $600,000 worth of clothes

   Let Buzz Bussinger tell you something.

  March 26, 2013 | 5:32pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Check out XKCD’s epic multi-day animation comic

  There’s no telling how long it’s going to take to fully appreciate Randall Munroe’s latest exercise in webcomic experimentation.

  March 26, 2013 | 5:21pm -

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  Comics Panel New comics releases include a trio of great graphic novels and the rebirth of Constantine

  Also reviewed: Two Hellboy spinoffs, a Will Eisner short-story collection, and an unnecessary Wolverine book.

  March 26, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Book Review Richard Hell: I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp

  The pioneering punk behind Television and The Voidoids alternates between conventional and eccentric in an autobiography that ends too soon.

  March 25, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Ron Currie Jr.: Flimsy Little Plastic Miracles

  This bizarre piece of autobiographical fiction features the author faking his own death to become famous, somewhat inadvertently.

  March 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Book Review Owen King: Double Feature

  Stephen King’s son and Joe Hill’s brother joins the family profession with this debut novel about a debut film gone terribly wrong.

  March 25, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire The Vatican has some thoughts on Batman, for some reason

  The Papacy longs for the good old days of ka-pow fisticuffs.

  March 22, 2013 | 2:20pm -

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  Big Issues Brian K. Vaughan’s The Private Eye is a bold move forward for digital comics

  The new science-fiction noir from two comic book all-stars is funding itself with a pay-what-you-want model.

  March 22, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  NOT OPTIONAL A brilliant art book, three terrific albums, and a must-have iPhone gadget

  Some entertainment is optional. These aren’t.

  March 22, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Newswire R.I.P. Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart 

   He was 83.

  March 22, 2013 | 11:03am -

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  Interview Douglas Rushkoff on Khaleesi Lady Gaga and why Sopranos’ end works but Lost’s doesn’t

  “Everyone wants the girl to win, right? Mother of dragons! Fuck the Starks, self-righteous stick-necks!”

  March 22, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Great Job, Internet! And now the Quentin Tarantino filmography has been reimagined as Penguin books 

   It's the book that says "bad motherfucker" on it

  March 21, 2013 | 5:30pm -

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  Book Review Alexander Theroux: The Grammar Of Rock: Art And Artlessness In 20th Century Pop Lyrics

  Are modern rock lyrics all banal and empty? A particularly cranky novelist and biographer thinks he’s the first person to ask.

  March 18, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Book Review Jamaica Kincaid: See Now Then 

  Poetry trumps content in this lyrical, emotive novel about divorce, which follows the author’s life in some respects.

  March 18, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Book Review Sam Lipsyte: The Fun Parts: Stories

  The author of The Ask returns with a collection of stories about the hapless and the helpless. 

  March 18, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Big Issues The silent Batman And Robin #18 is a Dark Knight masterpiece 

  Grab the tissues. 

  March 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Great Job, Internet! Check out the web cartoonists continuing Calvin And Hobbes 

  About once a year, someone decides it’s time to carry on in Bill Watterson’s footsteps. Here’s a roundup of the attempts.

  March 14, 2013 | 10:45am -

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  Money Matters Neal Pollack on rebounding from massive hype and six-figure deals to online publishing

  “Instead of doing what I did well, which was write, I was trying to cash in big time and become some mogul.”

  March 14, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Newswire Marvel Comics announces new digital initiative, breaks Comixology  

   But it should be cool when it works.

  March 12, 2013 | 12:07pm -

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  Comics Panel New comics releases include a Guardians Of The Galaxy origin story and the sordid Sex

  Also reviewed: Gilbert Hernandez’s latest, Age Of Ultron, and a romantically nerdy Neil Gaiman adaptation

  March 12, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Book Review Jay Farrar: Falling Cars And Junkyard Dogs

  The Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt vet takes potshots at his former bandmate Jeff Tweedy in this dull memoir, but that’s its only spark of life.

  March 11, 2013 | 12:02am -

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  Book Review Stephen Dobyns: The Burn Palace

  A character-packed horror novel in the Stephen King tradition has a huge cast looking for a kidnapped baby amid an endless array of suspects.

  March 11, 2013 | 12:01am -

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  Book Review Sean Ferrell: Man In The Empty Suit

  A fascinating, twisty, Looper-esque time-travel novel has a man trying to solve his own murder, with other versions of himself interfering or helping.

  March 11, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Big Issues China Miéville deconstructs superhero comics in the outstanding Dial H

  DC’s strangest title is a brilliant examination of superhero marketing, partner dynamics, and identity crises.

  March 8, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  AVQ&A Perfect pop culture?

  This week, a reader asks what art we can’t nitpick over because it’s unimpeachably right as is.

  March 8, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Great Job, Internet! The Room book is coming, for real 

  OH HAI MARK.

  March 7, 2013 | 4:40pm -