“Exquisite in both story and sentence, the Anne books built me as a reader, which is to say: they built me.”Sarah Mesle on "Anne of Green Gables"
Los Angeles Review of Books
Reviews
Nancy Forbes Romano on The Damnation of Theron Ware by Harold Frederic
“Illuminating Damnation: A Classic American Novel of Sex and Religion”
November 28th, 2012
Colin Dickey on The Secrets of Alchemy by Lawrence M. Principe
“One Book Opens Another: On “The Secrets of Alchemy””
November 27th, 2012
Amy Goldschlager on The Fractal Prince by Hannu Rajaniemi
“A Puzzle Box of a Quest Fantasy”
November 27th, 2012
Samantha Peale on Thanksgiving: How to Cook It Well by Sam Sifton
November 22nd, 2012
Amy Hassinger on Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks
“Caleb's Garter: On Geraldine Brooks's "Caleb's Crossing"”
November 20th, 2012
Daniel T. Blumstein on Wild Hope by Andrew Balmford
“Lessons from the Field: On "Wild Hope" by Andrew Balmford”
November 18th, 2012
Andrew Gumbel on How We Forgot the Cold War by Jon Wiener
“How America Didn’t Win the Cold War (A Travelogue)”
November 17th, 2012
Morten Høi Jensen on The Fun Stuff and Other Essays by James Wood
“The Art of the Critic: On James Wood”
November 17th, 2012
John Cline on Darkest America by Jake Austen and Yuval Taylor
November 16th, 2012
Authors
Percival Everett
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Charles Yu
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Genres
SF
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Art & Architecture
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." — Frank Zappa... More
Literary Fiction
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
Nonfiction
"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them.... More