“I’m a hairy ape, get me? And I’ll bust youse in de jaw if you don’t lay off kiddin’ me.” When Eugene O’Neill wants to get his point across,...

There’s a fair chance that you’re familiar with Piper Kerman’sOrange Is The New Blackthrough the award-winning Netflix drama. This week we wanted to go to the source material and...

Things get a little hot and heavy on this week’s episode dedicated to Philip Roth’s 1969 novelPortnoy’s Complaint. We do, however, start off with some reactions to our Pride...

This week, we take another run at Jane Austen.Pride and Prejudiceis, in Andrew’s words, “a book where a bunch of people eventually get married to each other. “It’s also...

Go Tell It on the Mountain, the first novel by revered American author and essayist James Baldwin tackles a whole host of serious issues ranging from slavery to the...

This week’s book, Tracy Chevalier’s Girl With a Pearl Earring, is historical fiction that purports to tell the story of the painting of the same name. If that’s not...

Bernhard Schlink’sThe Readerwas published just five years after the reunification of Germany, and the ways in which it explores the country’s troubled history were quite verboten while the wall...

Robin Sloan’s debut novel, Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, tackles the literary world’s imminent digital future with an adventure tale that Andrew describes as “like a Dan Brown book but...

Tina Fey is a prolific, talented, outspoken comedian with a track record to rival the best in the business. She’s also a keen observer of the human condition, and...