The Paris Review Book for Planes, Trains, Elevators, and Waiting Rooms is a uniquely-themed anthology in that it's theme is the reader. This compendium offers reading material to fill those ... Read More

The longlist for the 2004 Man Booker Prize was announced yesterday, August 26. 22 books were chosen from 132 entries. "This has been a very rich year for fiction and we ... Read More

Written from the perspective of a 15-year-old autistic boy with a Sherlock Holmes penchant, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time plunges the reader directly into a mystery ... Read More

Author, M.J. Rose, in a follow-up to "Too Many Books?" her essay exploring the glut of books being published today, examines reader responses to her article and the solutions they ... Read More

With a notebook and night-vision gear, Robert Sullivan sits in a New York streamlike flow of garbage becoming one with the rat. Sullivan, a modern-day Thoreau, spends a year plunging ... Read More

Susanna Clarke really likes magicians. She ought to. She's been writing about them for a decade. Her debut novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, due out in ... Read More

Jonathan Franzen is the author of three novels — The Twenty-Seventh City (1988), Strong Motion (1992), and The Corrections (2001)— and a collection of essays, How to Be Alone (2002). ... Read More

Today is Trinidad-born, British novelist, V.S. Naipaul's birthday. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, Naipaul is most widely known for A House for Mr. Biswas, "the moving ... Read More

In You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination, Katharine Harmon has shared her love of maps by collecting a broad-ranging variety of art form. Not ... Read More

Monday Mourning is Kathy Reichs' seventh Temperance Brennan novel. It is as chillingly good as her first, Deja Dead, a NY Times bestseller which won the 1997 Edgar Award for ... Read More

Awarded the pulitzer prize for fiction in 2004, The Known World by Edward P. Jones tells the story of Henry Townsend, a black farmer and former slave who falls under ... Read More

Who is kidnapping and dismembering the fetching young vampiresses of the High Krewe of Vlad Tepes? Who is draining the blood of black preachers and dumping their bodies in the ... Read More

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness-a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are ... Read More