William Gay — Twilight

By Charles D'Ambrosio at 12:00 AM on November 3, 2006

Prose master weaves chilling tale about an undertaker not doing his job...  read more

The Doors With Ben Fong-Torres...

By Travis M. Langness at 12:00 AM on November 3, 2006

The Doors, from open to close...  read more

Chris Adrian — The Children's Hospital

By Mary Helene Warner at 12:00 AM on November 3, 2006

Check in here—it might save your life...  read more

Daniel Levitin - This Is Your Brain...

By chuck leddy at 12:00 AM on August 23, 2006

Why we prefer one song to another—like so much else—is pretty damn complicated  read more

Doug Hoekstra - Bothering...

By dennis cook at 12:00 AM on August 23, 2006

Tales of the touring life, served up with a crooked grin  read more

Dusted Off: Ray Bradbury's...

By Jack Pendarvis at 12:00 AM on August 18, 2006

Red Planet, dead planet: A trip down memory lane...  read more

Andrea Seigel - To Feel Stuff

By ari messer at 12:00 AM on August 16, 2006

A college infirmary breeds clumsy love  read more

Gilbert Hernandez - Sloth

By Paul Christman, Jr. at 12:00 AM on August 16, 2006

Alternative-comics pioneer captures ache of teenage passion  read more

David Byrne - Arboretum

By Montana Wojczuk at 12:00 AM on August 16, 2006

A book of intelligent designs from the master of irrational logic  read more

Haruki Murakami - Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman

By Charles McNair at 12:00 AM on August 8, 2006

The Big Dream meets The Big Sleep: Popular Japanese writer brings Chandler pitch and precision to new work  read more

Marisha Pessl - Special Topics in Calamity Physics

By Susan Swagler at 12:00 AM on August 8, 2006

Crisp writing and clever plot make first-time novelist’s mystery required reading  read more

Various - London Noir (Edited by Cathi Unsworth)

By John Hood at 12:00 AM on August 8, 2006

The world’s a dark place—get with it  read more

George Singleton - Drowning In Gruel

By Greg Changnon at 12:00 AM on July 24, 2006

Gruel, S.C.—Where’s William Tecumseh Sherman when you really need him?  read more

Guatam Malkani - Londonstani

By Franklin Daugherty at 12:00 AM on July 24, 2006

Yo, ’sup. Me n u b safe, blud, innit?  read more

Bill Buford - Heat

By William Perkins at 12:00 AM on July 24, 2006

Is there high drama behind the swinging doors of a New York kitchen? Mamma mia!  read more

Mark Childress - One Mississippi

By Montana Wojczuk at 12:00 AM on July 17, 2006

News Flash: Black prom queen wakes up white in Mississippi  read more

Dunstan Prial - The Producer

By Natalie Danford at 12:00 AM on July 17, 2006

The Man Who Discovered... Everybody  read more

Steven Yarbrough - The End of California

By Kristen den Hartog at 12:00 AM on July 17, 2006

Old sins snarl at the end of this rising Mississippi writer’s long leash  read more

Larry McMurtry - Telegraph Days

By Marc Weingarten at 12:00 AM on July 11, 2006

Cowboy cliches? McMurtry heads ’em up, moves ’em out  read more

Sara Gruen - Water for Elephants

By Thomas Bell at 12:00 AM on July 11, 2006

Riding Lessons author stables her horses in favor of a larger steed  read more