The Best Books of 2020: Reprints!
/
2020 was a good solid year for reprints.
Read MoreNotes for a Star Trek Bibliography: The Antares Maelstrom
/
Cox not only captures well the feeling of a frontier boom-town but also clearly enjoys himself injecting a little Deadwood-style hyperbole into the speech of his many seedy characters
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Nonfiction!
/
It's not surprising that certain themes have surfaced again and again, considering the boiling news atmosphere in which these authors are stewing every day.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Fiction!
/
These authors concentrate on the things that novels should concentrate on: showing readers new worlds and introducing them to new monsters.
Read MoreThe Worst Books of 2018: Nonfiction!
/
2018 a particularly demoralizing year for nonfiction, and here are the worst offenders.
Read MoreThe Worst Books of 2018: Fiction!
/
A combination of laziness and cynicism is the most prominent trend in this year's bad fiction.
Read MoreBest Books of 2018: History!
/
Winnowing down the candidates in this category was more difficult than almost any other year in the last decade.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Biography!
/
The bulk of the year was an unplanned and unexpected celebration of the plasticity of the genre.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Romance!
/
The best of a genre stacked with devilish dukes, concupiscent cowboys, ingenious ingenues, and naughty nannies.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Mystery!
/
Virtually every entry is the latest book in an ongoing series.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Science Fiction & Fantasy!
/
The best science fiction and fantasy in a year filled with sequels, prequels, and books-in-series.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Historical Fiction!
/
A year's worth of historical fiction steeped in relevance.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Debut Fiction!
/
Debut fiction is a strong indicator of the general health of a literary year.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Works in Translation!
/
The yardstick here is not solely accuracy of translation, but the worth of the English-language results.
Read MoreThe Best Books of 2018: Kids and Young Adult
/
The pure has been sifted from the pandering and here are the gems I found!
Read More
Penguins on Parade: The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories!
/
Readers ready for an adventurous alternative to the many Japanese short story collections that have preceded it will find it here.
Read MoreBen Goldfarb Q&A about BEAVERS!
/
Open Letters talked with author Ben Goldfarb about this sometimes-maligned fixture of the natural world.
Read MorePenguins on Parade: The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta!
/
The first novel ever published in California and the first written by a Native American.
Read MoreBack to the New Yorker in the Penny Press!
/
My return issue of the New Yorker arrived just the other day; I fixed myself a sandwich, and then settled in to a reading experience I hadn't had in years.
Read More