Many of my favorite nonfiction books take a single thing, explore that thing, and then leave their readers knowing more than they did [...]

Here's a bookish scenario: You find yourself hanging with a verging-on-very-literate group of hipsters. Someone among them declares the book dead … as [...]

I love, in principle, any book about color. Probably because I can’t seem to break my own color habit. Wouldn’t you know, I’ve [...]

Any serious addiction drains its servant of empathy. It's eerily natural for compassion to wane as the addict battles chemical tigers. Being a [...]

Mikhail Shiskin’s The Light and the Dark is an epistolary novel, a series of letters exchanged between two lovers. But it’s more innovative [...]

[sub]Carlos Contreras performs a one-man show based on Time Served[/sub]Friday and Saturday, April 11-12, 8pmTricklock Performance Laboratory110 Gold SW254-8393, brownpapertickets.comTickets: $10 admission; $25 [...]

Paul DeBlassie III’s The Unholy is a frightening thriller that details the struggle between the forces of good and the forces of evil. [...]

[sub]Anthony De Sa reads from Kicking the Sky[/sub]Thursday, April 10, 7pmBookworks4022 Rio Grande NW344-8139, bkwrks.com

There are quiet sounds that often get lost in the business of our daily lives. Catherine Reid’s book Falling Into Place: An Intimate [...]

You’ll recognize everything here. Arched azure sky on a breeze-ruffled spring afternoon. Tessellation of sun on water. Early morning when the treetops are [...]