By trying to cover the entire scope of loud, fast music over the past 50 or so years via interviews with those who played it, recorded it, or released it, Jon Wiederhorn and Katherine Turman allow the music itself to ...

The Woman Upstairs starts aggressively: “How angry am I? You don’t want to know. Nobody wants to know about that.

I Want to Show You More marks the emergence of a new Southern talent. Jamie Quatro doesn’t just dissect the modern marriage and the modern family, but the modern evangelical church. It’s a book to both devour and chew over.

For a country that loves to eat as much crap as we do, we sure love to read about how terrible it is for us.

There has been a lot of discussion in certain circles lately over the memoir: Is it inherently narcissistic? Can it ever be journalism? Is anyone’s personal life ever actually interesting to anyone else?

A Possible Life is a series of five disparate novellas that jump back and forth in time from the 19th century to the near future. But wait, you say, isn’t that just what David Mitchell did in Cloud Atlas, way ...

Is the year really over? Has the wealth of riches that has been the literary scene in 2012 really come to a close? I mean, the year had its down points—can we please stop talking about 50 Shades of Grey ...

Jon Ronson has a curious mind. More specifically, it’s a mind captivated by extreme people and situations.

What really sends Telegraph Avenue over the edge from realism to fantasy is that it’s a book about a record store in a mostly black neighborhood focused mostly on black music that neglects any mention at all of hip-hop culture ...

It’s a given that the nephew of one of college football’s most storied coaches might know a little something about the sport, especially if his father also played college ball and his grandfather coached for decades over at Sewanee. So ...

While it’s likely the summer of 2012 will be best remembered in the publishing world for the utter domination of 50 Shades of Grey, the erotic trilogy hasn’t been the only best-selling surprise this year.

'50 Shades of Grey' vs. 'Game of Thrones'—a review in comic-strip format.

How Should a Person Be? is described as “a novel from life,” although it could equally be called a fictionalized memoir. The book’s protagonist is a Toronto writer named Sheila Heti whose best friend is a painter named Margaux Williamson ...

Do we really need The Year of the Gadfly, a new novel by Jennifer Miller about a possibly villainous secret society at a small New England prep school? Probably not. However, if you’re a fan of the genre, The Year ...

This new, revised version of Alan Greenberg’s 1976 book collects fragmentary, dream-like scenes from the period—starting with his first meeting with Herzog at the Cannes Film Festival in 1975 and concluding with the final shoot for the film, in Ireland—plus ...