Summer Reading

It's been said that behind every great man there's a woman, but Adrienne Miller kicks it up a notch

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.

For those new to speculative fiction in general and African-American writers of the form in particular, the newest 'Dark Matter' anthology, edited by Sheree Thomas, is the perfect guide

The familiar self-portrait on the front cover of 'The R. Crumb Handbook' offers a warning before you crack the spine:'I'm not here to be polite!'

He spent seven years smuggling marijuana into the United States over the border from Mexico and somehow lived to write about it

Rarely does a novel succeed in strengthening itself through its own dismantling

Ian McEwan's observation of human experience is unflaggingly acute

Michael Connelly's ace homicide detective Harry Bosch is back with LAPD after three years' retirement

Anyone familiar with the musical output of John Wesley Harding (né Wesley Stace) knows that the artist possesses a sly wit and literary ear that sets him apart from his fellow folk singers

One big, crippling thought that makes you wonder how long John McManus has been waiting to confide it, this naturalistic first novel from the former Michener fellow and author of the short-story collections 'Born on a Train' and 'Stop Breakin Down' takes place in late-Eighties East Tennessee at the base of a ridge in the Smokies

In 'Embroideries,' Marjane Satrapi again returns to the Iran of her youth, this time taking readers to a more intimate place, the space inhabited by women

Some other summer reading possibilities ...