The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America

During the 1950s, comics came under societal and governmental scrutiny. David Hajdu examines this troubled time.

March 21, 2008 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Mavericks: A Gallery of Texas Characters

"This is the west, sir. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend." That wisdom is at the heart of this collection.

March 21, 2008 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of 'Energy Independence'

Robert Bryce's dissection of the energy market isn't likely to win him friends.

March 7, 2008 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

The Secret History of the English Language

If the late Douglas Adams had made his mark as a writer of history textbooks, the resulting volumes might read like The Secret History of the English Language

March 7, 2008 Books Review by Ken Lieck

The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead

The Thing About Life is an acknowledgement of the inevitability of bodily decline dressed up in elaborate literary garments

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Dangerous Laughter: 13 Stories

Millhauser is a bit of an illusionist himself, trading in elaborate setups, allegorical sleight of hand, and fairy tales with something up their sleeve

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Michael Agresta

The Flowers: A Novel

Dagoberto Gilb's latest novel takes readers on a startling and inevitable journey

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Belinda Acosta

Night Train to Lisbon

This unlikely, labyrinthine but ultimately intriguing tale by Swiss writer Pascal Mercier is already a bestseller in Europe

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Jay Trachtenberg

His Illegal Self

Carey, an Australian native, is at his best when describing the minutiae of the wild, and less when grappling with his implausible premise

Feb. 29, 2008 Books Review by Yvonne Georgina Puig

Beautiful Children: A Novel

In this remarkable debut novel, the decline of the great American experiment is written in the neon lights and decaying storefronts of Las Vegas

Feb. 1, 2008 Books Review by Josh Rosenblatt

The Somnambulist

Barnes crafts one of the finest first novels of the young century

Feb. 1, 2008 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Brooklyn Was Mine

Brooklyn is a place that demands to be understood literarily, whether the literature of choice is Walt Whitman's or Jay-Z's

Jan. 25, 2008 Books Review by Cindy Widner

The Pulpwood Queens' Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life

Meet the Pulpwood Queens and Kathy L. Patrick, Texas' answer to Oprah and perhaps just as important a name in the word biz

Jan. 25, 2008 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Laura Warholic or, the Sexual Intellectual

Theroux has a knack for creative observations and clarity, as well as an undeniably vast knowledge of literature and sex

Jan. 18, 2008 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Jane Boleyn: The True Story of the Infamous Lady Rochford

Court intrigue is hot stuff this season

Jan. 18, 2008 Books Review by Margaret Moser

The Book of Other People

Profits from the sales of this priceless anthology of short stories will benefit 826NYC

Dec. 28, 2007 Books Review by Wayne Alan Brenner

I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

This massive biography of Allen Ginsberg, lovingly assembled by Ginsberg's archivist, is a laborious read, at once fascinating and discomfiting

Dec. 21, 2007 Books Review by Melanie Haupt

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute: A Timeless Voyage From Paris to Marseilles

Autonauts of the Cosmoroute is the record of an epic adventure on the Autoroute de Sud, cobbled together from fragments composed on the road

Dec. 21, 2007 Books Review by Michael Agresta

Getting Off: Pornography and the End of Masculinity; Pornography: A Groundwork Guide

Part manifesto, part memoir, Robert Jensen's book calls on men to reject pornography, join the feminist movement, and rise above preconceived notions of sexuality

Dec. 7, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe

Shooting War

Shooting War, writer Anthony Lappé and illustrator Dan Goldman's glossy, all-color graphic novel, is a political satire focused on the business of corrupt journalism, wars on terror, and networks shaking hands with governments

Nov. 23, 2007 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

The Hypocrisy of Disco: A Memoir

Disco doesn't have much to do with anything in Clane Hayward's memoir of her late Seventies, peripatetic preteens, which were spent shuttling between a hippie mom, redneck dad, and anybody else with an open space – but not necessarily an open heart – in which Hayward could crash

Nov. 23, 2007 Books Review by Kimberley Jones

Gilded Lili: Lili St. Cyr and the Striptease Mystique

Author Kelly DiNardo recounts the fascinating life of 'the queen of striptease'

Nov. 16, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Elvis Is Titanic: Classroom Tales From the Other Iraq

If you think you know everything about how America is viewed by the people whom our troops are meant to be protecting, there is much in this volume that will surprise you

Nov. 16, 2007 Books Review by Ken Lieck

New Stories From the South: 2007 – The Year's Best

Isolation, family dysfunction, dogs, brutal weather, and regret

Oct. 26, 2007 Books Review by Joe O'Connell

Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas

Homeless drug- and gambling addicts, design flaws, crawfish, black widows, graffiti of inspiration and despair

Oct. 26, 2007 Books Review by Shawn Badgley

Incredible Change-Bots

In his latest (and first all-color) graphic novel, indie-comix star Jeffrey Brown has stepped slightly out of form

Oct. 19, 2007 Books Review by Sofia Resnick

Best American Fantasy

Best American Fantasy replicates the success of the late The Year's Greatest Science Fiction and Fantasy series by combing nontraditional genre haunts and delving into mainstream, literary and online magazines

Oct. 19, 2007 Books Review by Rick Klaw

Brujerías: Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond

Thirty years, 64 narrators, and 165 stories

Sept. 28, 2007 Books Review by Terry Ornelas Woodroffe

Tokyo Year Zero

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

Sept. 28, 2007 Books Review by Richard Whittaker

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Mordecai Richler once remarked that 'the novelist's primary moral responsibility is to be the loser's advocate.' It's difficult to imagine how anyone who takes that dictum to heart could outdo Junot Díaz here.

Sept. 21, 2007 Books Review by Rayyan Al-Shawaf

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