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PBS' documentary series P.O.V. offers a kinder, gentler (though no less provocative) brand of television.

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Director Guillermo del Toro keeps company with the undead in two new films, Blade 2 and The Devil's Backbone.

Books editor Clay Smith surveys what the September 11 attacks have done to several local bookstores' sales.

Picking up where Mystery Science Theater 3000 left off, Mr. Sinus Theater 3000 skewers the movies of our childhood to sold-out crowds at the Alamo Drafthouse.

The romance field, Margraet Moser writes, is unique in its symbiosis: Most writers come from the ranks of readers and therefore understand the marriage of reader and book. The sisterhood and moral support in this almost exclusively female dominion is palpable. It is also gratifying and empowering and, in a few cases, exceedingly lucrative.

Recent Fiction and Nonfiction Reviewed

Roger Gathman delves into local bookstores' shelves of smut to investigate the collective Gestalt of erotica.

"I saw my first cadaver when I was about five years old. I saw my first rotting corpse at 10." Now, at 35, Guillermo del Toro is probably the world's most promising horror film director.

Reviews of Recent Fiction and Nonfiction

SUVs are not sluggish, the Internet is not homogenous, and roads are not decongestants.

Austin writer Neal Barrett Jr.'s latest mind-over-matter comic thriller, Interstate Dreams, "has an oddly disorienting effect," Chronicle reviewer Mike Shea writes.

The details about what books have been selling in Austin in 1999.

Author Neil Gaiman is a fantastist and storyteller. Marc Savlov talks to the author and reveals why he's also a legend. Sort of.

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