The Library of America Don DeLillo
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Three works by the great American novelist Don DeLillo enter the Library of America.
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The Big Book of Modern Fantasy, edited by Ann & Jeff Vandermeer
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A stuffed, generous collection of post-WWII fantasy stories from around the world.
Read MoreFraternity by Ben Nugent
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A debut collection of short stories centering around a frat house, where boys and girls navigate the limbo between adolescence and adulthood.
Read MoreThe Big Book of Reel Murders, Edited by Otto Penzler
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This huge book is a bonanza of finds, from the well-known to the gloriously idiosyncratic.
Read MoreThe Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Edited by Graeme Davis
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The biting little irony is that finishing this book will create a near-irresistible urge to read a Holmes story.
Read MoreThe Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
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The science fiction world now has this one last hefty volume of wonders as a reminder of a great editor now gone.
Read MoreFour Novels of the 1930s by John O’Hara
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These novels gave form to the unreachable dreams of glory that would motivate and torment O’Hara for the rest of his professional career.
Read MoreFinding a New Midwestern History
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The cultures and histories of the Midwest assayed from dozens of different vantage points, displaying a huge region of the United States that's often written off.
Read MoreClassic American Crime Fiction of the 1920s
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A grand arrangement of five classic and addictively readable pulp novels,
Read MoreThe Big Book of Female Detectives
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An anthology of stories by the most iconic women of the detective canon over the past 150 years.
Read MoreFrankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein turns a ripe old 200 in 2018, and one of the first of a probable flood of books to commemorate that bicentennial is this volume Frankenstein: How a Monster Became an Icon, edited by Sidney Perkowitz and Eddy Von Mueller. The anthology is divided into three unequal parts: Part One is about Shelley's book itself (including Laura Otis' very strong “Frankenstein: Representing the Emotions of Unwanted Creatures”); Part Two concentrates on Frankenstein in the media; Part Three consists of two essays about Frankenstein and science, with the standout piece being “Frankenstein and Synthetic Life: Fiction, Science, and Ethics” by Perkowitz.
Read MoreIn the Shadow of Agatha Christie
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As the great editor (he of last year's excellent The New Annotated Frankenstein) Leslie Klinger notes in his Introduction to In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917, Christie will always be considered “the Queen of Crime.” This kind of sobriquet naturally invites readers to search for predecessors – and naturally invites editors to assemble books like this one. Even half a century ago the exercise was in full swing with Hugh Greene's now-venerable The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes.
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