A laugh-out-loud apocalypse, a daft two-against-the-world love story, and a science-fiction satire of the godawful way advertising can cram... More >>

One of the few happy developments here at the end of all book culture has been the vigorous republication of out-of-print marvels by the New York... More >>

Perhaps what's most remarkable about Dave Eggers' big-spiritedness is that the same humane, world-minded impulses that animate his work with 826... More >>

A year after the first Nickelodeons opened in 1900, the wiseasses at the Edison Company filmed and unleashed The Kansas Saloon Smashers, a... More >>

"I blame Mick Jagger for fucking with black magic," Peter Coyote says a good chunk of the way into Season of the Witch, Salon founder David... More >>

A mystery novel whose chief mystery is just what kind of novel it actually is, Heidi Julavits' The Vanishers opens with the most naturally... More >>

Tuesday, April 10 Not long before leaving school to light out for San Francisco, a young Chana Wilson experienced the kind of epiphany that the... More >>

Wednesday, April 11 Harpo Marx — that industrious nonsense-maker, that weirdly peripheral cynosure, that genius of the rambunctious... More >>

For some 2,000 years, the end of the world has been to preachers what a Canadian girlfriend is to lonely adolescent boys: They keep talking about... More >>

March 5 Some 30 pages into When the Killing's Done, an eco-novel as rewarding as it is frustrating, T.C. Boyle describes the arms of a... More >>

Over the course of One More for the People, her too-short first book, Martha Grover dishes to us about cheese-selling, a childhood near-death... More >>

While it's subtitled "An Existential Comic Diary," and its form is an of-the-moment smooshing of picture book, graphic novel, and ersatz journal... More >>

Friday, Jan. 13 Since it thrives on candor and the imaginative input of the reader, the novel stands as the only medium to portray sex as... More >>

By far the best thing you could have on an airplane this winter, including an upgrade or an exit-row aisle seat, the latest edition of the... More >>

In The Barbarian Nurseries, his affectionate satire of class, race, and housework in Orange County, Héctor Tobar aspires to Tom Wolfe or... More >>

San Francisco author Stephen Beachy describes his new novel as "collaborative." The exact number of collaborators is uncertain, but Beachy will... More >>

Sunday, Oct. 9 This year's Litquake has possibly more author events per capita than any other literary festival ever. Here's one: Chris Adrian,... More >>

Fall is funny around here. While the rest of the country goes properly autumnal, with days cooling and notable new books consisting of a Dick... More >>

People do so much suffering and dying in A Pornography of Grief that endurance starts seeming indecent. There are two broken necks before Page... More >>