Joshua Ferris's novel is like an episode of Seinfeld - an episode in which Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer all work for a big Chicago ad agency. Nothing much happens. ... Read More

In Michael Chabon's revisionist history in which Jewish refugees have thrived in the Alaskan panhandle for sixty years, homicide detective Meyer Landsman and his half-Tlingit partner are at the center ... Read More

As James Lee Burke's new novel, The Tin Roof Blowdown, begins, Hurricane Katrina has left the commercial district and residential neighborhoods awash with looters and predators of every stripe. The ... Read More

A young Pakistani named Changez is living an immigrant’s dream of America. At the top of his class at Princeton, he is snapped up by Underwood Samson, an elite firm ... Read More

55 essays culled from British author Will Self's eponymous Independent column and themed around an intimate acquaintance between Self and his environs. Review of PsychogeographyThe Rest of 2007's Top Ten Books

Ian McEwan's deceptively slim novel, On Chesil Beach, poignantly follows the uncomforatable wedding night of Edward and Florence, a virgin couple in 1963. Review of On Chesil BeachThe Rest of ... Read More

As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, ... Read More

Readers who enjoy frightening themselves will enjoy Joe Hill's debut novel, Heart-Shaped Box. The plot suffers from some holes, the writing is invisible more than it is literary, and the ... Read More

At the age of 29, Sydney has already been once divorced and once widowed. Now she has answered an ad to tutor the teenage daughter of a well-to-do couple as ... Read More

The history of Afghanistan is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And, yet, people find a way to survive, to go on. Ultimately, this is more than a ... Read More

Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place, a collection of 55 essays culled from British author Will Self's eponymous column in The Independent, is themed around an intimate ... Read More

The film adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner opened in theaters on Friday to mixed reviews after a six week delay during which the film's child actors were moved ... Read More

Author Terry Pratchett announced on his illustrator's web site that he has been recently diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's Disease. "I would have liked to keep this one quiet for a ... Read More

In the late 1970's, Steve Martin,, this gray-haired, white-suited comedian, burst seemingly out of nowhere, straight to the top. But Steve Martin was no overnight sensation. He had spent the ... Read More

The Economist has a decidedly current affairs and business-related Best Books of 2007 list.

From Stephen Colbert, the host of television's highest-rated punditry show The Colbert Report, comes the book to fill the other 23½ hours of your day. I Am America (and So ... Read More

As the most celebrated European to explore Asia, Marco Polo was the original global traveler and the earliest bridge between East and West. A universal icon of adventure and discovery, ... Read More