Many things from television and film traumatized me as a child. The clown-in-the-hayloft episode on “Little House on the Prairie.” The trailer for the 1974 movie “It’s Alive,” which featured a mutant infant’s clawed hand draped over a bassinet. The [...]
I was hesitant to buy a NOOK—I’m one of those readers who takes pride in collecting her wares and surrounding herself with them like they’re old friends. I enjoy forcing them upon passing them out to friends. I like the [...]
Whether you’re starting a book club for your grade schooler, looking for bedtime stories that you can enjoy, too, or are just in need of a little cheap escapism, there are few sweeter thrills than revisiting your favorite books from [...]
The annual gathering of geeks known as San Diego Comic-Con officially kicks off today, and while you’ll find your usual collection of capes, crossbows and cosplayers, this year’s festivities—more so than ever before—have a decidedly young-adult bent. Tributes, Shadowhunters, Launchies: [...]
Paparazzi and plebs alike have been on Royal Baby Watch for weeks now, awaiting the arrival of Prince William and Kate Middleton’s first born. And the only person more impatient than the Queen for his/her birth has got to be [...]
We New Yorkers have been feeling pretty sweaty and sorry for ourselves during this heat wave. We asked Sophie Hudson, author of A Little Salty to Cut the Sweet, if things are just as bad down South. Turns out: yes. [...]
Sometimes the most important literature out there is the kind that’s so depressingly relatable, you can’t help but fall into a spiral of melancholy recognition by the third chapter. Tao Lin’s Taipei, for all the flack it’s received, is both [...]
Over the weekend, word leaked out that Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the real author of The Cuckoo’s Calling, a crime thriller published under the very British pseudonym Robert Galbraith. Rowling said writing in the guise of a retired [...]
Jaye Wells is best known for her best-selling Sabina Kane saga, which I consider one of the best paranormal fantasy series out there. But fans of Wells impatiently awaiting the release of the first book in Prospero’s War, her new urban [...]
