7/3/22What's the best movie to watch on the Fourth of July?Jaws, Do The Right Thing, Iron Man, and other film recommendations for your Independence DayByErik Adams, Laura Adamczyk, Alex McLevy, Katie Rife, Matt Schimkowitz, Gwen Ihnat, Saloni Gajjar, Marah Eakin, Tatiana Tenreyro, Gabrielle Sanchez, Shanicka Anderson, and William HughesPublishedJuly 3, 2022
3/2/22The Employees is an elusive, creeping, quietly defiant workplace satireWith The Employees, Danish writer Olga Ravn subverts the expectations of science fiction and the workplace novelByLaura AdamczykPublishedMarch 2, 2022
2/21/22Memoirs from Bob Odenkirk and Sarah Polley top our list of books to read this MarchPlus: Age Of Cage traces Nicolas Cage’s eclectic filmography, and The Emissary author Yoko Tawada kicks off a…ByLaura Adamczyk, Ines Bellina, and Adam MorganPublishedFebruary 21, 2022
2/14/22What are you reading in February?There’s no bad time to dig into N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogyByLaura Adamczyk and Alex McLevyPublishedFebruary 14, 2022
2/7/22A lonely child grows up among some Very Cold People in Sarah Manguso’s first novelAfter seven books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, the 300 Arguments author makes her novel debut with the…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedFebruary 7, 2022
1/25/22The latest in Marlon James’ Dark Star trilogy, Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus, and more books to read in FebruaryPlus: Sheila Heti’s Pure Colour, Mónica Ojeda’s deliciously macabre English-language debut, and a pinpoint…ByLaura Adamczyk, Bradley Babendir, and Adam MorganPublishedJanuary 25, 2022
1/4/22The 15 most-anticipated books of 2022From Nobel winner Olga Tokarczuk’s magnum opus to Janelle Monáe’s debut story collection, here are the books we're…ByLaura Adamczyk, Adam Morgan, Ines Bellina, and Bradley BabendirPublishedJanuary 4, 2022
12/28/21A new novel from Hanya Yanagihara, an Elephant 6 oral history, and more books to read in JanuaryThe author of A Little Life returns with a new novel, Neutral Milk Hotel gets the oral history treatment, and more…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedDecember 28, 2021
12/15/21The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2021We hope you like novels, because we've got a bunch of themByLaura Adamczyk, Erin Somers, Bradley Babendir, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, and Rien FertelPublishedDecember 15, 2021
12/2/21Six Feet Under, The Sopranos, and the American family in the golden age of televisionDespite presenting a far more dynamic vision of what an American family could be, Six Feet Under has never been…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedDecember 2, 2021
11/29/21Hitting below the belt: Succession’s heated volley of sexualized insultsThis latest season of the popular HBO drama has significantly ramped up the Oedipal allusionsByLaura AdamczykPublishedNovember 29, 2021
11/2/21How bookstores are adjusting to supply-chain problems this holiday seasonThe A.V. Club asked a trio of booksellers how they’re preparing for this year's book-buying season, and which titles…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedNovember 2, 2021
10/27/21Mel Brooks’ memoir, an in-depth history of HBO, and more books to read in NovemberNovember also brings with it new speculative and science fiction from Natashia Deón, Charlie Jane Anders, and Adam…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedOctober 27, 2021
10/27/21The 25 best Halloween TV episodes of the 21st centurySince 2000, there have been some impressive additions to the Halloween canon from BoJack Horseman, Modern Family, Wan…ByGwen Ihnat, Danette Chavez, Alex McLevy, Katie Rife, Shanicka Anderson, Saloni Gajjar, Gabrielle Sanchez, Tatiana Tenreyro, Cameron Scheetz, Laura Adamczyk, Sam Barsanti, and William HughesPublishedOctober 27, 2021
10/21/21With Parquet Courts’ new album comes a reminder of their most undervalued talentParquet Courts are best known for the wild and woolly energy of their early work, but one of the band’s greatest…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedOctober 21, 2021
10/18/21What are you reading in October?Lily Hoang’s bleak, unrelenting tale of infanticide, Melissa Lozada-Oliva’s novel-in-verse, and books one and two of …ByLaura Adamczyk, Alex McLevy, and Danette ChavezPublishedOctober 18, 2021
10/15/215 burning questions we have ahead of Succession’s third seasonHere are the biggest questions we’d like to see answered in the HBO drama’s season 3, debuting on Sunday, October 17BySaloni Gajjar, Laura Adamczyk, Gabrielle Sanchez, Cameron Scheetz, and Gwen IhnatPublishedOctober 15, 2021
9/29/21A new Franzen novel, a Sebald biography, and more books to read in OctoberThe fall book season marches on with another Jonathan Franzen doorstopper, Eugene Lim’s inventive new novel, and Nina…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedSeptember 29, 2021
9/20/21What are you reading in September?Gabrielle Union's memoir on motherhood, a coming-of-age novella set in mid-century Mexico City, and short stories…ByLaura Adamczyk and Shanicka AndersonPublishedSeptember 20, 2021
9/15/21Joy Williams’ Harrow is a strange, comic novel for the end of the worldIn her first novel in over 20 years, Williams has written a philosophical story of climate change filled with…ByLaura AdamczykPublishedSeptember 15, 2021