Usually books try to make you root for the protagonist. Even if he or she is flawed in some crucial way, most stories try to make you feel something...

What’re the holidays without children’s stories? Every year, families gather around their yule rocks and Festivus poles to hear their favorite tales of holidays past — which means it’s...

Truman Capote’sCapote’s “non-fiction novel” In Cold Bloodchronicles the mass murder of a family in rural Kansas by two runaway parolees.Inspired by a 300-word newspaper article, itbasically created the “true...

We hope you like awesome horses and sobbing cowboys, because this week special guest host Casey Johnston is walking us through Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove. It’s a kind-of-subversive western...

For the second week in a row, we’ve decided to read a book about a dystopian society—Animal Farmwas about the oppressed overthrowing and then becoming the oppressors, butThe Handmaid’s...

Old Man Stalin Had A Farm…E-I-E-I-O….What happens when you mix the Russian Revolution with a bunch of farm animals and (more than a dash) of dystopian bummers?George Orwell’sAnimal Farm!Come...

Have you read Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, or seen the major motion picture currently in theaters? Because if not, you probably should turn back: we’re in full-on spoiler mode...

Michael Chabon is no stranger to genre fiction. He has a Lovecraftesque alter ego. He’s written essays decrying navel-gazing trends in the short story world. His Pulitzer Prize-winningThe Adventures...

Haruki Murakami is a giant of contemporary literature, particularly in his native Japan. However, his books are often rife with references to Western culture – in fact, one of...