Summary judgment on books of note, from NPR personalities, independent booksellers and critics from across the public-radio spectrum.

Simon Sebag Montefiore writes about the Middle East and a moving memoir about what the end of life looks like ...

Published a day after writer Jeffrey Archer’s death, his final book Adam & Eve spans from 1918 to 1940, and follows two people from sharply different worlds.

More shops are opening their doors, providing genre fans the chance to browse, buy and find creepy community. By Erik Piepenburg In a new book, Fredrik deBoer argues that deinstitutionalization, the ...

Both books will leave readers to admire their use of language and form while also contemplating the ways we each respond to our given lives.

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I knew George Singleton for a couple of years back in the early ’90s. We were both untenured instructors at a small state ...

“The Singularity is Nearer,” Ray Kurzweil, was on my library’s new bookshelves when I desperately needed reading material. I decided to risk it. Sadly, my expectations were met. It has almost all the ...

Fantasy, food, and friends.

The death of book reviews is not greatly exaggerated, but it is greatly protracted. This time, the bell tolls for book reviews from the Associated Press. If you subscribe to one of the few major ...