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A Harry Potter fanfic nabs biggest book-to-movie deal of the year (and maybe ever)
By Mary Kate Carr September 10, 2025 | 11:08am
R.I.P. Eric Carle, creator of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
By William Hughes May 26, 2021 | 11:54pm
David Duchovny on writing, revisiting Mulder, and his new movie with Judd Apatow
By Gwen Ihnat May 29, 2021 | 3:00am
5 new books to read in June
By Laura Adamczyk June 2, 2021 | 5:00am
Oral history Changes is a grounded account of Tupac Shakur’s legendary life
By Mosi Reeves June 7, 2021 | 11:00am
Cyclopedia Exotica uses ancient myth to address modern prejudiceBy Oliver Sava June 11, 2021 | 1:00pm
Not even teen Constantine can save The Mystery Of The Meanest Teacher from itself
By Caitlin Rosberg June 15, 2021 | 3:00pm
Tarantino teases more Hollywood hijinks in Once Upon A Time novelization trailer
By Matt Schimkowitz June 21, 2021 | 11:07pm
Barbara Crampton goes inside the mind of a serial killer in an Our Lady Of The Inferno exclusive
By Katie Rife June 22, 2021 | 5:00pm
5 new books to read in July
By Laura Adamczyk, Alex McLevy, Danette Chavez June 29, 2021 | 11:00am
DC Pride highlights the publisher’s commitment to LGBTQ+ storiesBy Oliver Sava June 29, 2021 | 3:00pm
The best picture books of 2021 so far
By Marah Eakin July 8, 2021 | 11:00am
The Best Show’ s Tom Scharpling cuts through the crankiness in his hilarious and candid memoirBy William Hughes July 5, 2021 | 11:00am
With Wayward , Dana Spiotta wanders into some clumsy commentary
By Paul Thompson July 5, 2021 | 1:00pm
The A.V. Club ’s favorite books of 2021 so farBy Laura Adamczyk, Danette Chavez, Rien Fertel, Ashley Naftule July 8, 2021 | 5:00am
Alone In Space is a pensive retrospective of Tillie Walden’s early workBy Tiffany Babb July 14, 2021 | 1:00pm
Grady Hendrix’s The Final Girl Support Group is the page-turning slasher of the summer
By Alex McLevy July 12, 2021 | 11:00am
Danny Trejo details meeting "greasy, dirty, scrawny white boy" Charles Manson in jail
By Tatiana Tenreyro July 9, 2021 | 3:16pm
Humanity is doomed in Matt Bell’s unrelenting climate change novel, Appleseed
By Samantha Nelson July 14, 2021 | 3:00pm
Graphic novel Bubble is an ideal summer read
By Caitlin Rosberg July 13, 2021 | 3:00pm
The Cult Of We expertly charts the disastrous arc of Adam Neumann’s WeWorkBy Bradley Babendir July 19, 2021 | 1:00pm
What are you reading in July?
By Matt Schimkowitz, Gabrielle Sanchez July 19, 2021 | 5:00am
Crystal Kingdom loses some of the shine of The Adventure Zone ’s earlier graphic novelsBy Justin Carter July 28, 2021 | 11:00am
Andy Serkis, Gollum himself, records new Lord Of The Rings audiobook
By Gabrielle Sanchez July 21, 2021 | 10:09pm
James McAvoy returns for Audible's The Sandman: Act II , joined by Regé-Jean Page, Emma Corrin, Bill Nighy, and more
By Gabrielle Sanchez July 22, 2021 | 3:48pm
Cecily Strong’s mournful memoir, a Megan Abbott thriller, and more new books to read in August
By Laura Adamczyk, Saloni Gajjar July 26, 2021 | 5:00am
The Delicacy ’s dazzling visuals overcome an undercooked storyBy Oliver Sava July 27, 2021 | 1:00pm
Stephen King evokes John Wick and pandemic anxiety in the tense, fractured Billy Summers
By William Hughes August 2, 2021 | 11:00am
Chinatown meets climate change in Alexandra Kleeman’s Something New Under The Sun By Bradley Babendir August 3, 2021 | 11:00am
How do we solve a problem like loneliness? In Seek You , Kristen Radtke looks for an answer
By Laura Adamczyk August 2, 2021 | 3:00pm
Twitter falls for a fake Cormac McCarthy account, again
By Gabrielle Sanchez August 2, 2021 | 8:03pm
Dolly Parton has co-authored a novel with James Patterson
By Gabrielle Sanchez August 11, 2021 | 9:23pm
Four new hard-hitting crime novels to get you through the end of summer
By Saloni Gajjar August 23, 2021 | 5:00am
A new Sally Rooney, Joy Williams’ first novel in 20 years, and more books to read this September
By Laura Adamczyk, William Hughes, Danette Chavez August 24, 2021 | 11:00am
Moon Knight complicates the brutal vigilante’s spiritual conflictBy Oliver Sava August 25, 2021 | 5:00pm
Beautiful World, Where Are You is Sally Rooney’s best novel yetBy Rien Fertel September 7, 2021 | 5:00am
Maggie Nelson wades into the discourse’s murky middle in On Freedom
By Laura Adamczyk September 8, 2021 | 3:49pm
Colson Whitehead thrives in the moral grays of Harlem Shuffle
By Danette Chavez September 13, 2021 | 6:27pm
Joy Williams’ Harrow is a strange, comic novel for the end of the world
By Laura Adamczyk September 15, 2021 | 3:30pm
The system is the monster in Naomi Novik’s engaging The Last Graduate
By William Hughes September 27, 2021 | 3:00pm
America’s racist past (and present) haunts Percival Everett’s thrilling, absurdist The Trees
By Isaías Rogel September 21, 2021 | 4:00pm
A new Franzen novel, a Sebald biography, and more books to read in October
By Laura Adamczyk September 29, 2021 | 5:00am
A novelist recalls his suicide attempt in the ruminative One Friday In April
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 11, 2021 | 3:00pm
The cascading fears of Razorblades: The Horror Magazine are scary good
By M.L. Kejera October 6, 2021 | 3:00pm
Hideo Kojima’s The Creative Gene is a heartfelt tribute to pop culture
By Sam Barsanti October 12, 2021 | 11:00am
Artie And The Wolf Moon has plenty of warmth but needs more chillsBy Oliver Sava October 19, 2021 | 3:00pm
To sell out or not to sell out? A new book traces the punk boom of the ’90s and ’00s
By Alex McLevy October 26, 2021 | 7:40pm
Mel Brooks’ memoir, an in-depth history of HBO, and more books to read in November
By Laura Adamczyk October 27, 2021 | 1:00pm
How bookstores are adjusting to supply-chain problems this holiday season
By Laura Adamczyk November 2, 2021 | 3:00pm
Supernatural thriller The Perishing is a luminous love letter to Los Angeles
By Adam Morgan November 9, 2021 | 12:00pm
It’s nature vs. technology in Nnedi Okorafor’s fast-paced novel Noor
By Gabrielle Sanchez November 15, 2021 | 4:00pm
No One Else sparks an emotional fire with subtlety and graceBy Oliver Sava November 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
HBO oral history Tinderbox offers little more than amusing anecdotes
By Bradley Babendir November 23, 2021 | 2:00pm
All the best stories, trivia, and tidbits from Mel Brooks’ memoir, All About Me!
By Rien Fertel November 29, 2021 | 4:00pm
The 13 best books to buy pop-culture lovers this Christmas
By Marah Eakin November 25, 2021 | 12:00pm
The 15 best book covers of 2021
By Laura Adamczyk and Natalie Peeples December 2, 2021 | 6:00am
The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2021
By Laura Adamczyk, Erin Somers, Bradley Babendir, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, Rien Fertel December 15, 2021 | 6:00am
A new novel from Hanya Yanagihara, an Elephant 6 oral history, and more books to read in January
By Laura Adamczyk December 28, 2021 | 12:00pm
The 15 most-anticipated books of 2022
By Laura Adamczyk, Adam Morgan, Ines Bellina, Bradley Babendir January 4, 2022 | 6:00am
Camera Man chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Buster KeatonBy Rien Fertel January 24, 2022 | 2:00pm
The best comics of 2021
By Justin Carter, M.L. Kejera, Caitlin Rosberg, Oliver Sava January 14, 2022 | 5:00pm
Hanya Yanagihara’s latest epic, To Paradise , is a muddled slog
By Erin Somers January 11, 2022 | 2:00pm
Disaster strikes in four new futuristic sci-fi novels
By Adam Morgan January 20, 2022 | 12:00pm
A woman stumbles through grief in the wry, affecting Joan Is Okay
By Isaias Rogel January 21, 2022 | 2:00pm
John Darnielle untangles the knotty ethics of true crime in the fictional Devil House
By Bradley Babendir January 25, 2022 | 12:00pm
The latest in Marlon James’ Dark Star trilogy, Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus, and more books to read in February
By Laura Adamczyk, Bradley Babendir, Adam Morgan January 25, 2022 | 6:00am
Queer characters are inspired by the past in the enchanting short stories of Manywhere
By Grace Byron January 26, 2022 | 12:00pm
The Method tells the story of the 20th century’s most controversial acting practiceBy Rien Fertel February 1, 2022 | 2:00pm
In The Books Of Jacob , a Nobel laureate tells the epic story of a self-proclaimed messiah
By Drew Dickerson January 31, 2022 | 2:00pm
A lonely child grows up among some Very Cold People in Sarah Manguso’s first novel
By Laura Adamczyk February 7, 2022 | 2:00pm
Marvel's The Thing miniseries is a strange and stunning piece of superhero noir
By Oliver Sava February 9, 2022 | 6:00am
What are you reading in February?
By Laura Adamczyk, Alex McLevy February 14, 2022 | 2:00pm
The suspenseful second entry in Marlon James’ Dark Star fantasy trilogy outdoes the first
By Adam Morgan February 14, 2022 | 12:00pm
Memoirs from Bob Odenkirk and Sarah Polley top our list of books to read this March
By Laura Adamczyk, Ines Bellina, Adam Morgan February 21, 2022 | 12:00pm
The Employees is an elusive, creeping, quietly defiant workplace satireBy Laura Adamczyk March 2, 2022 | 4:00pm
Evan Ross Katz shares the biggest takeaways from his Buffy book
By Gabrielle Sanchez March 15, 2022 | 3:07pm
New sci-fi by Emily St. Jon Mandel, stunning poetry by Ocean Vuong, and more great books coming this April
By Alison Foreman, Gabrielle Sanchez March 25, 2022 | 7:05pm
How to catch up on the X-Men, the most unpredictable franchise in superhero comics
By Oliver Sava April 5, 2022 | 5:00am
The 15 most essential music bios (and autobiographies) so far this century
By Alex McLevy, David Brusie, Dan Bogosian, Noel Murray, Annie Zaleski, Marty Sartini Garner, Lily Moayeri April 6, 2022 | 4:00pm
What are you reading in April?
By Alison Foreman, William Hughes April 7, 2022 | 5:00am
Rave and Time Zone J illuminate the past with unique artistic visionsBy Oliver Sava April 13, 2022 | 1:00am
Books you need to read in May, including Jenna Fischer and Angela Kinsey's The Office BFFs and Remarkably Bright Creatures
By Alison Foreman, Saloni Gajjar May 1, 2022 | 7:00am
What are you reading in May?
By Alison Foreman May 11, 2022 | 11:00am
The Sandman , Where The Crawdads Sing , Bullet Train , and 12 more great reads heading to the screen this summerBy Alison Foreman June 7, 2022 | 8:00am
Penguin Classics’ new Marvel collections are decidedly prestigious, if understandably incomplete
By Sam Barsanti June 30, 2022 | 12:00pm
What are you reading in June?
By Alison Foreman, Gabrielle Sanchez, Mary Kate Carr, Matt Schimkowitz June 19, 2022 | 8:00am
10 books you should read in August, including Michael Mann's Heat 2 and T.J. English's Dangerous Rhythms
By Cat Auer July 28, 2022 | 8:00am
10 books you should read in September, including Stephen King's Fairy Tale and Alex Ross' Fantastic Four: Full Circle
By Cat Auer August 24, 2022 | 9:00am
10 books you should read in October, including David Bowie's Moonage Daydream and William Shatner's Boldly Go
By Cat Auer September 27, 2022 | 12:00pm
10 books you should read in November, including Steve Martin's Number One Is Walking and Bob Dylan's Philosophy Of Modern Song
By Cat Auer October 26, 2022 | 1:00pm
2022’s best new anime shows are also a good way to get into manga
By Sam Barsanti November 22, 2022 | 5:00pm
The writers are fighting
By Emma Keates April 10, 2024 | 6:21pm
Forthcoming book to explore preeminent American classic It’s A Wonderful Life —exclusive
By Mary Kate Carr April 12, 2024 | 3:25pm
10 books you should read in June, including Questlove's hip-hop memoir, a reality TV history by a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a new romance from Brynne Weaver
By Cindy White June 3, 2024 | 6:25pm
Slash’s Deathstalker comics flip the script on ’80s barbarian debauchery
By Bryan Reesman July 6, 2024 | 1:00pm
Keanu's new 350-page sci-fi novel sounds pretty damn metal
By William Hughes July 18, 2024 | 10:14pm
July comics preview: an ode to EC Comics and a follow-up to an Eisner Award-winning DC Black Label miniseries
By Oliver Sava July 1, 2024 | 7:04pm
10 books you should read in July, including new Chuck Tingle and a Gravity Falls book for adults
By Cindy White July 4, 2024 | 1:00pm
Author Steven Hyden on his new Bruce Springsteen book and being a "Boss Nerd" even when it wasn't cool
By David Brusie May 27, 2024 | 1:00pm
Jonathan Franzen sticks with what works—and loses what doesn’t—in the excellent Crossroads
By Erin Somers September 29, 2021 | 11:00am
R.I.P. Francine Pascal, author of Sweet Valley High
By Emma Keates July 30, 2024 | 12:43pm
10 books to read in August, including a new Will Trent mystery and a primer for aspiring movie critics
By Cindy White August 1, 2024 | 11:00am
A24 is getting into the novelization game
By Emma Keates August 6, 2024 | 12:42pm
The latest in book banning: Judy Blume, Margaret Atwood, Sarah J. Maas axed from Utah public schools
By Mary Kate Carr August 7, 2024 | 1:26pm
Imane Khelif names enemies of success J.K Rowling and Elon Musk in cyberbullying lawsuit
By Matt Schimkowitz August 13, 2024 | 9:33pm
Marvel Comics’ stands already feel emptier without Rainbow Rowell’s She-Hulk
By Anna Govert August 21, 2024 | 8:00am
Jimi Hendrix goes from guitar hero to sci-fi hero in the graphic novel Purple Haze
By Cindy White August 26, 2024 | 11:00am
Emily St. James and Noel Murray head Back To The Island in first book excerpt
By Danette Chavez August 26, 2024 | 12:00pm
