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Saul Bass: A Life in Film & Design
Gift Guide: Coffeetable Saul Bass
Kimberley Jones, Dec. 1, 2011
Steve McQueen: The Actor and His Films
Gift Guide: Coffee-table Steve McQueen
Marjorie Baumgarten, Dec. 1, 2011
The Stranger's Child
Sarah Smith, Oct. 20, 2011
The Visible Man
Audra Schroeder, Oct. 20, 2011
When She Woke
Wayne Alan Brenner, Oct. 20, 2011
Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good
James Renovitch, Oct. 20, 2011
The Outlaw Album
James Renovitch, Oct. 20, 2011
The Beautiful and the Damned: A Portrait of the New India
Wayne Alan Brenner, Oct. 20, 2011
How To Do Things With Videogames
With minimal tech jargon, Ian Bogost explores how games have become embedded in all aspects of our lives
James Renovitch, Sep. 29, 2011
Steplings: A Novel
Kids prove better at adapting than parents when they run away from home
James Renovitch, Sep. 22, 2011
East of the West: A Country in Stories
If you have to staycation, at least see the world via books
Sarah Smith, Jul. 28, 2011
The Book of Happenstance
Translating obsession
Monica Riese, Jul. 7, 2011
The Sisters Brothers
A black-comic picaresque set in Gold Rush country
Kimberley Jones, Jun. 23, 2011
The Astral
Where's the drama in this family drama?
James Renovitch, Jun. 23, 2011
After Midnight
The rise of Nazism slowly affects a partying 19-year-old in Germany
Sarah Smith, Jun. 16, 2011
Eleven
'Life isn't so neat' in British comic Mark Watson's novel
Monica Riese, Jun. 16, 2011
New in Graphic Novels
These are two books so ripe with sex, it's as if the subject has fermented in the pages
Wayne Alan Brenner, Jun. 9, 2011
May Releases: 'Remember Ben Clayton'
Michael King, May. 26, 2011
May Releases: 'The Murder of Jim Fisk for the Love of Josie Mansfield'
Kimberley Jones, May. 26, 2011
Bright Before Us
A mutilated body on a beach sends an elementary school teacher into a tailspin
Kimberley Jones, May. 5, 2011
The Lake
A dark horse for pre-summer beach reading
James Renovitch, May. 5, 2011
The Late American Novel: Writers on the Future of Books
A refreshing surprise in these days of lit-scene doom and gloom
Wayne Alan Brenner, Apr. 14, 2011
The Tragedy of Arthur
This novel shows an impressive commitment to presenting an entirely real-feeling fake
Kimberley Jones, Apr. 14, 2011
Montecore
Montecore shows a young novelist swinging for the fences and hitting hard
Sarah Smith, Mar. 31, 2011
What You See in the Dark
Manuel Muñoz's first novel spins haunting fiction out of an Alfred Hitchcock film shoot
Belinda Acosta, Mar. 24, 2011
You Know Who You Are
From the title – a challenge, a threat, or merely an observation – this novel is about search for self
Monica Riese, Mar. 24, 2011
West of Here
James Renovitch, Mar. 16, 2011
Penthouse F
A kooky, metafictional page-turner that doesn't entirely pay off
Sarah Smith, Mar. 3, 2011
Swamplandia!
This debut novel boasts its own exclamation point for good reason.
Kate X Messer, Feb. 24, 2011
The Intimates
A frank and charming portrait of an unconventional love
Monica Riese, Feb. 24, 2011
Poser: My Life in 23 Yoga Poses
Two memoirs explore new parenthood and old childhoods with still-open wounds
Kimberley Jones, Feb. 17, 2011
The Fates Will Find Their Way
A small town wonders about the girl who got away in this debut novel
Monica Riese, Feb. 10, 2011
The Mother Who Stayed
Furman blocks together stories of incredible grace and heft from materials as humble as they come: the dips and turns of family life
Sarah Smith, Jan. 27, 2011
The Empty Family
If you want to be sad – to surrender to the profundity and variety and physical force of that sensation – Colm Tóibín is your man
Cindy Widner, Jan. 20, 2011
The Lover's Dictionary
David Levithan makes the personal work universally and vice versa
Wayne Alan Brenner, Jan. 20, 2011
New in Print
Get radicalized: About to Die examines news imagery at the moment of death, while The Verso Book of Dissent spans Zola and Tupac
Richard Whittaker, Dec. 17, 2010
Long, Last, Happy: New and Collected Stories
This posthumous collection showcases Barry Hannah's wit, his humor, and an ear finely tuned to the myriad dialects of the South
Katherine Smith, Dec. 10, 2010
Great House
Krauss charts the life cycle of love in alternating chapters, from new love and lost love to lovelessness
Kimberley Jones, Dec. 10, 2010
Donald Judd
Cindy Widner, Dec. 3, 2010
Sci-Fi Art
Richard Whittaker, Dec. 3, 2010
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