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 novel
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…
2/14/22What are you reading in February?There’s no bad time to dig into N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy
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…
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…
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…
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…
12/15/21The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2021We hope you like novels, because we've got a bunch of them
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…
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 allusions
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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 17
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…
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…
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…
9/13/21The best of Pitchfork Music Festival 2021Angel Olsen provoked tears, St. Vincent shredded—these are the most noteworthy sets The A.V. Club saw at this year's…