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  • noththisaugustfull Box Of Paperbacks: Not This August

    May 08, 2008

    The Box Of Paperbacks Book Club: Not This August by C.M. Kornbluth (1955) (Not long ago, A.V. Club editor Keith Phipps...

  • Bonk Bonk

    May 08, 2008

    The quirky author of Stiff and Spook returns with another exploration of how current science interacts with a fringe subject. In this case, sex.

  • Welcome To Shirley Welcome To Shirley

    May 08, 2008

    The author of this bittersweet memoir loved everything about her town except the lethal radioactivity.

  • Wicked City Wicked City

    May 08, 2008

    A crime writer visits a real place for a fakey novel.

  • The Ruins Book Vs. Film: The Ruins

    May 02, 2008

    How do you make a killer plant scary? Apparently if you're making a movie based on a bestseller, you don't.

  • The Finder The Finder

    May 01, 2008

    Death by sewage sets the tone for this grimy thriller.

  • Hubert's Freaks Hubert's Freaks

    May 01, 2008

    A real-life art-world treasure hunt comes to life in a compelling mini-history.

  • Arkansas Arkansas

    May 01, 2008

    A debut novel finds that criminals, competent and otherwise, are just ordinary folks.

  • archie Idol haters, your savior is here

    Apr 25, 2008

    The boy who killed American Idol?

  • Twister (1989) Then he ate the insides of a clock

    Apr 25, 2008

    In-jokes, Old Bull, and Crispin Glover's greatest song.