Amy Stewart-flower Confidential

By Megan Byrd on 12:00 AM on February 5, 2007

Tampering with nature isn't all it's cut out to be.  read more

Saul Austerlitz - Money For Nothing

By Marc Weingarten on 12:00 AM on January 23, 2007

Music videos finally get their proper due as a legitimate art form for rigorous analysis.  read more

Michael Parker - Don't Make Me Stop Now

By Charles McNair on 12:00 AM on January 13, 2007

Love. Love. Love.  read more

Vladmir Sorokin - Ice

By James H. Johnson on 12:00 AM on January 9, 2007

Russia’s preeminent postmodernist, chilled, with a twist.  read more

DUSTED OFF: T.E.D. Klein's Dark Gods

By Victor LaValle on 12:00 AM on January 9, 2007

If you’re scared, say you’re scared.  read more

Anthony Swafford -- Exit A

By Charles McNair on 5:12 PM on December 12, 2006

Celebrated Jarhead author leads a raid into fiction.  read more

The Show I’ll Never Forget...

By Chuck Eddy on 4:58 PM on December 12, 2006

This collection of essays contains mostly hits and a couple flops.  read more

David Fulmer — The Dying...

By Jeff McNeil on 3:02 PM on December 6, 2006

A roscoe coughs. A blonde slumps over, dead as Vaudeville...  read more

Dave Eggers — What Is The What?

By Josh Jackson on 2:16 PM on December 6, 2006

Gen X’s most gifted author gives voice to a former Sudanese refugee...  read more

Jack M. Balkin/Beth Simone Noveck

By Thomas Bell on 11:32 AM on November 27, 2006

Do the laws of meatspace role-play in virtual worlds?...  read more

Courtney Love — Dirty Blonde...

By Sally Timms on 11:25 AM on November 27, 2006

“Oh I will make myself so beautiful…give me one reason to sell my soul..."  read more

Dusted Off: Alan Sillitoe's...

By Charles McNair on 12:00 AM on November 14, 2006

Nine teacups. Hold the tempests. Serve bitter, cold...  read more

Cormac McCarthy — The Road

By David Langness on 12:00 AM on November 14, 2006

A great writer offs almost everyone in a post-apocalyptic masterpiece...  read more

Harry Shearer — Not Enough Indians

By Nick A. Zaino III on 12:00 AM on November 14, 2006

Shearer creates a Simpsons-worthy small town...  read more

Memories of John Lennon, Ed. Yoko Ono

By Theresa Starkey on 12:00 AM on January 13, 2006

Book collects Lennon musings from wide range of admirers  read more

Andy Greenwald's Miss Misery

By Brian Howe on 12:00 AM on January 13, 2006

With debut novel, Spin senior writer positions himself as the Bret Easton Ellis of the blogosphere.  read more

Andy Greenwald's Miss Misery

By Brian Howe on 12:00 AM on January 13, 2006

With debut novel, Spin senior writer positions himself as the Bret Easton Ellis of the blogosphere.  read more

Heather Chaplin & Aaron Ruby’s Smartbomb

By Chris Dahlen on 12:00 AM on December 8, 2005

A look at the misfit geniuses behind today’s booming video-game industry  read more

David Foster Wallace

By Jack Pendarvis on 12:00 AM on December 8, 2005

Consider the Writer: Gifted author tempers his provocative opinions with good humor  read more

Conversations with Tom Petty

By Clayton Moore on 12:00 AM on November 28, 2005

Author helps Tom Petty share his fascinating story  read more