from On Reading by André Kertész

Divine Justice is the fourth in David Baldacci's Camel Club series of novels that have enjoyed immense popularity. Each novel has asked what secrets the federal government is keeping from ... Read More

In parting from the usual, Citizen Reader has posted a list of the worst books of 2008, which happens to include The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (one that we included ... Read More

Nobel laureate Harold Pinter died last night at the age of 78. He had been suffering from cancer. Perhaps Britain's most famous playwright, Pinter was awarded the Nobel Prize ... Read More

In the opening pages of Hurry Down Sunshine, Michael Greenberg says it's "something of a sacrilege" to speak of mental illness as anything besides the "chemical brain disease that it ... Read More

[ January 20, 2009 Update: Elizabeth Alexander's Inaugural Poem, "Praise Song for the Day" text ] Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Alexander will read at the swearing in of President-elect Barack Obama ... Read More

Here's one the percolated right to the top of our Best of 2008 list: State by State, beautifully bound as something approximating a 1950's textbook, features 50 personal essays ... Read More

The Gate House, a sequel to Nelson DeMille's successful The Gold Coast, has all the elements of a 2009 beach read. There is a lot of sex; he does wait ... Read More

Artist and author Shaun Tan's The Lost Thing is being made into a 15-minute CGI animated short by an Australian film company. Tan's work is wonderfully playful and fantastic. ... Read More

 from On Reading by André Kertész

Amazon's Kindle, which has been out for a year now, has made enormous gains in popularity. Evidently, Amazon has sold out of the item until early next year sometime, and ... Read More

Pretty Monsters, Kelly Link's third collection of short stories, is billed as her first for young adult readers, though it works just fine on adults as well. It's an ... Read More

J.K. Rowling's The Tales of Beedle the Bard is out on the shelves today with something just short of the fanfare of a typical Harry Potter launch. Still, 8 ... Read More

Set in Waynesville, North Carolina during the depression, Ron Rash's novel Serena traces the story of a wealthy lumber baron and his ruthlessly ambitious wife. Think Lady Macbeth in Appalachia... ... Read More