Writing fiction is an occult art, and no American novelist wields his Ouija board quite like Stewart O'Nan. In just 10 years, O'Nan [...]

Both a Cambridge physicist and an Anglican priest, Polkinghorne has already written extensively on connections between science and Christianity. In his latest book, [...]

As a historical document, Lords of Chaos does a fine, detailed job of contextualizing black metal in terms of its cousins, namely death [...]

Checkpoint has received a lot of press over the last couple months, mainly because it revolves around a gimmick that will probably prove [...]

He might be the inventor of one of the world's lamest pseudo-religions, Scientology, but at least L. Ron Hubbard can boast that he [...]

Em and Lo, youngish femme fatale advice columnists, offer the reader a book that starts off like June Cleaver's guide to sex etiquette [...]

Many feel that, with the aid of the corporate media, American politics has become so corrupt that it's not worth participating in. Since [...]

Revolving around the tricky lives of three youngish Los Angeles Latinas, Playing with Boys seems, by most accounts, to be poised to become [...]

Alfred Kinsey's studies of human sexuality were revolutionary when first published in the '40s and '50s. Even from the vantage of our own [...]

"When Victorians dreamed, they dreamed of the future," says the heroine of Bharati Mukherjee's new novel. "I dreamed of the past." This potent [...]