As an ignorant undergraduate, I'd never heard of Toni Morrison when I spotted her novel Beloved on a list of required books for [...]

Loren Coleman is a leader in the field of Bigfoot research. He has worked with the stars of cryptozoology, the study of undiscovered [...]

Mortimer's bumbling barrister is back in action. Even though he's on the edge of death following a recent heart attack, Rumpole still has [...]

This collection samples some of the best articles from one of the most brilliant magazine writers of our time. With sharp profiles of [...]

Marks first novel, The Walls, received a lot of praise for its intellectual thrills. This time out Marks has produced a wrenching story [...]

Mehmedinovic emigrated to the United States from the former Yugoslavia in 1996. City Lights published his well-received poetry collection, Sarajevo Blues, in 1998. [...]

Back when I lived in the Bay Area, there used to be a very popular museum dedicated to Gary Larson's masterful Far Side [...]

OK, I'll admit this is kind of a "dad book," but dads are people too, you know. And Beyond is an especially cool [...]

If I were allowed 10 books to lug into exile on a one-palm-tree desert island, Don Quixote would be one of them. Give [...]

No one does Christmas quite like David Sedaris. Fans of the squeaky voiced comedian will love this collection from a few years back [...]