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And someone's got to answer for all this … dysfunction.

Adorn your coffeetables with these hardbound masterpieces

Oversized books and outsized personalities

Shields hereby kicks the dead horse of literary fiction in its rigor-mortis'd ass

British-born David Peace comes on like James Ellroy with a pint of warm Yorkshire ale in his hand

The phenomenal Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski left behind a sticky legacy when he died earlier this year at the age of 74

John Burdett on Bangkok Haunts

An unimaginative Murakami makes for a middling piece of work

In this a talky, bawdy book, Jane Smiley says a lot about the vapidity of Hollywood and even more about the humanness of the 21st century American

No one has ever accused Cormac McCarthy of portraying the black-hearted underbelly of human nature through rose-colored glasses

Dun, dun, dunnn!

An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany

Political controversy aside, this is a mystery that works, one whose turns are neither obvious nor illogical

Anthony Trollope remarked that a satirist did best to write little, "or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives." Well ...

Elucidating the fine art of hanging around

'Conversations With the Great Moviemakers of Hollywood's Golden Age at the American Film Institute'

'You do an awfully good impression of yourself,' opens Bret Easton Ellis' first book in seven years

This auspicious debut, begun at the Michener Center for Writers, isn't a mystery yarn or a family gothic, a romance, or a satire of radical environmentalism. It's all of the above and then some.

Some other summer reading possibilities ...

There is contemporary fiction about addiction, and then there is Paradise, the fifth novel from A. L. Kennedy, which stands out for its bitter wit, its painful truth-telling, and the narcotic quality of its author's limber, serpentine prose

9pm, Red Eyed Fly

It would be an understatement to claim that Haruki Murakami's newest novel is a departure from his other novels

'Oscar Night: 75 Years of Hollywood Parties'

A naturalist on the varied, extreme track of the 'wandering foreigner'

John Graves' 'Myself and Strangers' finds the 83-year-old looking back at his past and into his future

Aux armes, citoyens!

The holidays have never been happier.

Authors are not authors in prison; Jessa Crispin should go to prison; Denis Johnson is ACES.