• games Christmas comes early with the festive, bloody Die Hard: The Nakatomi Heist By Samantha Nelson December 13, 2019 | 6:00am
• aux The A.V. Club’s 15 favorite books of 2019 By The A.V. Club, Danette Chavez, Samantha Nelson, Rien Fertel, Ines Bellina, Bradley Babendir, Adam Morgan December 11, 2019 | 12:00pm
• aux Find Me is more fan fiction than a true sequel to Call Me By Your Name By Samantha Nelson October 28, 2019 | 4:00pm
• aux The Testaments builds on the best and worst parts of Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale By Samantha Nelson September 17, 2019 | 8:30pm
• aux Amnesia afflicts an entire island in the urgent, beautiful Memory Police By Samantha Nelson August 12, 2019 | 3:00pm
• aux It’s Harry Potter meets Megan Abbott in fantasy noir Magic For Liars By Samantha Nelson June 3, 2019 | 7:00pm
• aux Famous Men Who Never Lived uses an alternate universe to tell a very real refugee story By Samantha Nelson March 4, 2019 | 8:00pm
• aux A stranger comes to town—and opens a bowling alley—in Elizabeth McCracken’s Bowlaway By Samantha Nelson February 4, 2019 | 8:00pm
• aux The A.V. Club’s 10 favorite books of 2018 By The A.V. Club, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Danette Chavez, Samantha Nelson, Rien Fertel December 5, 2018 | 12:00pm
• aux Jonathan Lethem’s Trump-era detective novel is too meta for its own good By Samantha Nelson November 5, 2018 | 4:00pm
• aux A historic fire illuminates an enduring institution in Susan Orlean’s The Library Book By Samantha Nelson October 15, 2018 | 6:00pm
• aux In the zombie apocalypse of Ling Ma’s Severance, the real monsters are the living By Samantha Nelson August 13, 2018 | 6:00pm
• aux Megan Abbott’s Give Me Your Hand mixes the horrors of high school and work By Samantha Nelson July 16, 2018 | 4:00pm
• aux The A.V. Club’s favorite books of 2018 so far By The A.V. Club, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Ryan Vlastelica, Rien Fertel, Samantha Nelson June 25, 2018 | 12:00pm
• aux Lauren Groff’s Florida explores the dark side of the Sunshine State By Samantha Nelson June 4, 2018 | 3:00pm
• aux Children Of Blood And Bone is less a novel than a YA movie franchise in waiting By Samantha Nelson March 5, 2018 | 4:00pm
• aux All The Pieces Matter delivers a fascinating oral history of The Wire By Samantha Nelson February 12, 2018 | 7:00pm
• aux The Girls In The Picture traces Hollywood's problem with women to the very beginning By Samantha Nelson January 15, 2018 | 8:00pm
• aux The A.V. Club’s favorite books of 2017 By Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Randon Billings Noble, William Hughes, Laura Adamczyk, Elena Bruess, Shea Hennum, Alex McLevy, Katie Rife, Samantha Nelson, Danette Chavez, Laura M. Browning December 4, 2017 | 12:00pm
• aux Brandon Sanderson’s series-spanning ambitions burden Oathbringer By Samantha Nelson November 14, 2017 | 8:00pm
• aux Thanks, Obama takes readers back to a White House when the president was funny, not a joke By Samantha Nelson September 18, 2017 | 3:00pm