In this week's film section, Calum Marsh interviews author Martin Amis, who has moved from his native Great Britain to New York. On November 4,... More >>
The game Lotería can best be described as a Mexican version of bingo, but instead of numbers, each card bears a striking image, such as... More >>
Although it's double-stuffed with counts and balls, with duels and scandal and exquisitely described hunting parties, with idealists debating... More >>
Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks Keith Houston • September 24, W. W. Norton &... More >>
Bushra Rehman's first novel, Corona, is a fragmented, poetic, on-the-road adventure told from the perspective of the charismatic Razia Mirza.... More >>
In an essay from his 2009 collection, Eating the Dinosaur, Chuck Klosterman reasons that because most television laugh tracks are stock... More >>
Superheroes are bigger than comic books, so now they're in movies—all movies, it seems, forever, no matter what. But in another sense... More >>
Susan Choi’s fourth novel, My Education, is an erotic, sharply written tale of a young graduate student, Regina Gottlieb, who finds herself... More >>
Behind the Shock Machine: The Untold Story of the Notorious Milgram Psychology Experiments By Gina Perry | New Press | September 3 We all think... More >>
"How angry am I? You don't want to know," begins the gripping first chapter of Claire Messud’s new novel, The Woman Upstairs (Knopf). The... More >>
Rachel Kushner was the girl who spent her teens sneaking onto the backs of motorcycles in California. Today, a couple of decades later, she's the... More >>
It's March, but a zigzag of skiers still winds its way down Corkscrew, Aspen Mountain's double-black-diamond run. This is the view from Justice... More >>
King of Cuba By Cristina García, May 21 Set partially in modern Havana, García's sixth novel offers a profane, rollicking sendup... More >>
No exaggeration: I coughed hot soup out of my nose while reading the new hardbound volume of deadpan dadaist Michael Kupperman’s Tales... More >>
What happens when F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Wes Anderson? Welcome to Kristopher Jansma's debut novel, The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards, a... More >>
“Authors are just notoriously difficult,” says the publicity director in Jessica Francis Kane’s story “How to Become a... More >>
Chief among the dark oddities of life in 18th- and 19th-century London is that the city, which produced so many dead, was itself forever in want... More >>
David Shields did it, again. He killed the novel. But it's less painful than it sounds. In How Literature Saves My Life, his eleventh book and... More >>
In an age when the price of a movie ticket can get you three hours of hang-time in Middle Earth, fantasy worlds aren’t exactly at a... More >>
Jump right into the New Year by celebrating the new issue of New York-based literary magazine n+1 at McNally Jackson on January 3. Issue number... More >>
If the book is in crisis, we didn't notice on our end. 2012 saw a ton of new offerings. Our scribes select a batch of the ones they liked... More >>
Lee has one day to prepare for the Teen Tap Road Show, but things aren't going well at Martle's House of Dance. Her stepfamily keeps texting they need the car,… More >>
When one reads in the Bible that Joshua burned the city of Ai "and made it a heap forever" and "the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until… More >>
Who would run around on Daniel Craig? Those muscular shoulders, those wintry eyes, that blond mane — is this a man to cuckold? Apparently. Craig has elected to play Robert, the… More >>
The Gaesling family is besieged. It's 1917. Father has recently died, and the Great War in Europe has called elder son Duncan (Evan Jonigkeit) from Princeton's supper clubs to the… More >>
In this week's film section, Calum Marsh interviews author Martin Amis, who has moved from his native Great Britain to New York. On November 4, Amis presents a screening of… More >>
There are at least two ways to see The Landing. You can go into the theater like the terribly boring adult that you probably are, sit down and turn off… More >>
There's much to celebrate and to regret in the Public's Fun Home, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's faithful, playful, and tender adaptation of Alison Bechdel's graphic novel. Fun Home details… More >>
A sense of humor about the macabre, as well as a love for the underbelly of American society pervades "Zoe Strauss: 10 Years," a survey of Strauss's work currently open… More >>
Many among the crowd that gathered around a patch of graffiti on the corner of a vacant, crumbling building in Tribeca earlier this month had no clue why they stopped… More >>
What do you picture when you hear the word magician? Maybe David Copperfield. Or a birthday party. "Magic suffers from the people who do magic," Derek DelGaudio says. DelGaudio and Helder Guimarães,… More >>