Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (2/8/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Seldom Disappointed by Tony Hillerman

If you ever have the bounty of standing on the rim and looking down into the astounding beauty of the sacred Navajo landscape of Canyon de Chelly, you might possibly have a sudden urge to stay longer than you’d originally planned.  read more

Mr. Miner’s Phish Thoughts: An Anthology By A Fan For The Fans by David Calarco

Rather than a standard review of David Calarco’s new Phish anthology, author/poet/Phishhead Paul Siegell has given us a poem about a book about a band.  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (2/1/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/25/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/19/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate by Terry Eagleton

In Reason, Faith, and Revolution, Terry Eagleton calls God Is Not Great “stylish, entertaining, splendidly impassioned, [and] compulsively readable.” But he also shows how shallow Hitchens’s conception of religion is, and how feeble a straw man he set up for himself. (Eagleton includes Richard Dawkins’s The God Delusion and Daniel C. Dennett’s Breaking the Spell in his indictment; he refers to the whole crowd as Ditchkins for rhetorical purposes.)  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/11/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

The Visible Man by Chuck Klosterman

Ask the casual observer, “What is Chuck Klosterman’s main subject?” He’ll answer, “Pop Culture.” It’s hard to look Klosterman up on Google or Amazon without seeing the phrase “pop culture junkie” in various iterations. Understandable. Pop culture, however, is not the fundamental drive-shaft of the Klosterman engine. It may be the rims, the grill, the spoiler, the hydraulics, and sometimes even the steering wheel. But pop culture itself does not propel the Klostermobile, even when it fuels it.   read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (1/4/12)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories by Dr. Seuss

Whenever a great author dies, loyal fans begin holding their breath. They hope that one day, perhaps soon, a final work will emerge from the artist’s private collection and sail into the marketplace for one last hoorah. Could there be a previously unpublished manuscript, caked in dust, lying at the bottom of a desk drawer? A character sketch locked away on the author’s hard drive that might thrill us once more?  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (12/28/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (12/21/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition by Norton Juster

In literature, entryways into fantastic other worlds come in all shapes and sizes.  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (12/14/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing To Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

(Editor’s Warning: Reading This Book Review May Rewire your Neurons)  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (12/7/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

The Revisionists by Thomas Mullen

My mission as Books Editor at Paste has always been broader than books. I’ve devoted six years at the magazine to the consideration of good writing and good writers from a Southern perspective—to literary review with a southern accent, if you will.   read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (11/30/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more

Comic Book & Graphic Novel Round-Up (11/23/11)

Each week, Paste reviews the most intriguing comic books, graphic novels, graphic memoirs and other illustrated books....  read more