Long before America elected its first born-again president and religious discussions wound up on the cover of Time magazine again, there was a [...]

Midway through reading The Book I Never Read, I realized that many of Lurie's poems are about disappointments of one kind or another. [...]

Even though as a critic I recommend books for a living by writing about them, my most rewarding experience of praising a novel [...]

Confusing transitions and mystifying blanks interrupt the impressive storytelling of Useful Girl. A hint of the reason comes from Stevens' years spent directing [...]

Haruki Murakami's 10th novel features a cat finder who talks to felines, a pimp named Col. Sanders, and an assassin who dresses up [...]

Charley Carey may not see it this way, but he is lucky to have an old man like his dad. After all, the [...]

The term fantasy art might call to mind a buxom, fur-thonged damsel clinging to one muscular thigh of a sword-wielding barbarian who grimaces [...]

Sarah Hall has an affinity for dying places. Her first novel, Haweswater, conjured a Northern England farm town teetering toward oblivion. Her latest [...]

Hey, Tipper Gore! You've been slacking on the job. You managed to get adult warning labels plastered on every potentially offensive CD from [...]

When former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson took it upon himself to lambaste our nation's drug laws a few years back, I thought [...]