“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
Merrie Haskell on Beauty: A Retelling of the Story of Beauty and the Beast by Robin McKinley
October 11th, 2012
Nathan Deuel on The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers
“Take It From a Soldier: On Kevin Powers's "Yellow Birds"”
November 11th, 2012
Christopher Bollen on Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter
“Taking Comedy Seriously: Jess Walter's New Novel”
July 17th, 2012
Paul McAuley on The Night Sessions by Ken MacLeod
August 2nd, 2012
Miles Corwin on The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women by James Ellroy
June 2nd, 2011
Laurie Winer on Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
December 2nd, 2011
David J. Leonard on Showdown, Integrating the Gridiron and Benching Jim Crow by Thomas G. Smith, Lane Demas and Charles Martin
May 24th, 2012
David Winters on Dying for Time by Martin Hägglund
“Terror and Beauty: Martin Hägglund’s "Dying for Time"”
February 5th, 2013
Genres
Television
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Comics
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SF
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Literary Fiction
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Biography & Autobiography
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More