Anthony Burgess: A Nice Quiet Horrorshow Writer

Some writers are made to break the rules. Jibril Hambel explains why the 'Clockwork' scribe's best-known work is ACTUALLY far from his best. Read more...

To Kill A Mockingbird

A half centuary after its first publication, Harper Lee’s novel To Kill A Mockingbird remains as powerful, as contested, and as much at the center of everyone’s prejudices as it ever was.

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J. D. Salinger: The Courage To Be A Nobody

A look back at the legacy of J.D. Salinger. Read more...

New Book: What the Dog Saw, And Other Adventures

A BEAUTIFULLY-packaged introduction to Malcolm Gladwell’s essay-writing, What the Dog Saw collects 19 of the puckish journalist’s favorite stories from The New Yorker, where he has worked since 1996. Read more...

The Must Read: About This Man Called Ali: The Purple Life of an Arab Artist

AMAL GHANDOUR’S BIOGRAPHY of Ali Jabri, the rather uncomfortably Jordanian painter and erstwhile conservationist who was murdered in 2002, tells the reader relatively little about its subject, but serves as a baroque chronicle of (and commentary on) the many worlds he inhabited. Read more...

Anathem: Sci-Fi Grows Up

At last someone has created a deeply thought-out and wildly foreign fantasy world—for adults. Neal Stephenson's latest could change how you look at reality. Read more...