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John Green’s Everything Is Tuberculosis is compelling enough that it should have been longer By Samantha Nelson March 18, 2025 | 10:00am
A Wizard Of Earthsea graphic novel faithfully captures the magic of Le Guin's world By Samantha Nelson March 5, 2025 | 10:00am
Brandon Sanderson’s Wind And Truth unfolds with gorgeous fantasy action By Samantha Nelson December 6, 2024 | 9:00am
Haruki Murakami's The City And Its Uncertain Walls expands an early novella to diminishing returns By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 20, 2024 | 11:00am
The suspenseful second entry in Marlon James’ Dark Star fantasy trilogy outdoes the first By Adam Morgan February 14, 2022 | 12:00pm
A lonely child grows up among some Very Cold People in Sarah Manguso’s first novel By Laura Adamczyk February 7, 2022 | 2:00pm
The Method tells the story of the 20th century’s most controversial acting practice By 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
Queer characters are inspired by the past in the enchanting short stories of Manywhere By Grace Byron January 26, 2022 | 12:00pm
John Darnielle untangles the knotty ethics of true crime in the fictional Devil House By Bradley Babendir January 25, 2022 | 12:00pm
Camera Man chronicles the extraordinary life and work of Buster Keaton By Rien Fertel January 24, 2022 | 2:00pm
A woman stumbles through grief in the wry, affecting Joan Is Okay By Isaias Rogel January 21, 2022 | 2:00pm
Disaster strikes in four new futuristic sci-fi novels By Adam Morgan January 20, 2022 | 12:00pm
Hanya Yanagihara’s latest epic, To Paradise, is a muddled slog By Erin Somers January 11, 2022 | 2:00pm
HBO oral history Tinderbox offers little more than amusing anecdotes By Bradley Babendir November 23, 2021 | 2:00pm
It’s nature vs. technology in Nnedi Okorafor’s fast-paced novel Noor By Gabrielle Sanchez November 15, 2021 | 4:00pm
Supernatural thriller The Perishing is a luminous love letter to Los Angeles By Adam Morgan November 9, 2021 | 12:00pm
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
Hideo Kojima’s The Creative Gene is a heartfelt tribute to pop culture By Sam Barsanti October 12, 2021 | 11:00am
A novelist recalls his suicide attempt in the ruminative One Friday In April By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 11, 2021 | 3:00pm
Jonathan Franzen sticks with what works—and loses what doesn’t—in the excellent Crossroads By Erin Somers September 29, 2021 | 11:00am
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
Joy Williams’ Harrow is a strange, comic novel for the end of the world By Laura Adamczyk September 15, 2021 | 3:30pm
Colson Whitehead thrives in the moral grays of Harlem Shuffle By Danette Chavez September 13, 2021 | 6:27pm
Maggie Nelson wades into the discourse’s murky middle in On Freedom By Laura Adamczyk September 8, 2021 | 3:49pm
Beautiful World, Where Are You is Sally Rooney’s best novel yet By Rien Fertel September 7, 2021 | 5:00am
Moon Knight complicates the brutal vigilante’s spiritual conflict By Oliver Sava August 25, 2021 | 5:00pm
Four new hard-hitting crime novels to get you through the end of summer By Saloni Gajjar August 23, 2021 | 5:00am
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
$Stephen King evokes John Wick and pandemic anxiety in the tense, fractured Billy Summers$ Stephen King evokes John Wick and pandemic anxiety in the tense, fractured Billy Summers By William Hughes August 2, 2021 | 11:00am
The Cult Of We expertly charts the disastrous arc of Adam Neumann’s WeWork By Bradley Babendir July 19, 2021 | 1:00pm
Humanity is doomed in Matt Bell’s unrelenting climate change novel, Appleseed By Samantha Nelson July 14, 2021 | 3:00pm
Grady Hendrix’s The Final Girl Support Group is the page-turning slasher of the summer By Alex McLevy July 12, 2021 | 11:00am
With Wayward, Dana Spiotta wanders into some clumsy commentary By Paul Thompson July 5, 2021 | 1:00pm
The Best Show’s Tom Scharpling cuts through the crankiness in his hilarious and candid memoir By William Hughes July 5, 2021 | 11:00am