Your Essential Marvel Cinematic Universe Reading List, 2019 Edition
Sure, you can see a comic book movie without doing your homework first. But we wouldn’t recommend it. It’s another…
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The Stakes are Higher and the Ships are Smarter in Gareth L. Powell’s Fleet of Knives
Victory wasn’t the end. Isn’t that always the way it goes? Gareth L. Powell’s Fleet of Knives returns to the universe of his…
7 Books to Read After You’ve Binged Netflix’s Russian Doll
Russian Doll, the new Netflix series starring and co-written by Natasha Lyonne, is a pretty remarkable achievement: a weird, funny,…
15 Love Stories to Match Your Valentine’s Day Mood
It’s almost Valentine’s Day—and the perfect time to year to read a love story. But our tastes in romantic tales…
A Beautiful, Bloody Fantasy Vision: Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Marlon James’ fourth novel, and the first in a planned trilogy, Black Leopard, Red Wolf seems an unusual next act for an…
The Best Comics and Graphic Novels of February 2019
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Vigilance Fearlessly Targets America’s Obsession with Violence
It’s not particularly daring to suggest that America is a nation obsessed with violence. The more we debate the impact…
Pirate Action, Family Drama, and Ancient Tech Collide in Shadow Captain
In the first book, Adrana and Fura Ness beat Bosa Sennen, the most ruthless and notorious pirate in the galaxy.…
The 25 Greatest Science Fiction Tropes, Ranked
What qualities must a book have to be considered science fiction? Genre categories can be helpful in guiding us toward…
A Second Chance at Youth in Gregory Benford’s Rewrite
What if you had it to do all over again—if, knowing what you know now, you could live your life…
The Best Comics & Graphic Novels of January 2019
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January’s Best New Biographies & Memoirs
[ean1]Let Me Finish: Trump, the Kushners, Bannon, New Jersey, and the Power of In-Your-Face Politics, by Chris Christie Whatever your thoughts…
Our Favorite Comics & Graphic Novels of 2018
Honestly, this list of our favorite comics and graphic novels of 2018 could easily have been twice as long. Surely…
Spiders Are Our Future: Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Children of Time
There are aliens, right here on Earth. Right now. Intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, as H.G. Wells put it—though…
9 Celebrity Memoirs for the True Fan on Your Gift List
Modern celebrities come in many different forms, with many different types of fans. Each one of the memoirs below is…
A Guide to the Many Spider-Heroes of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
There’s one Spider-Man, right? Peter Parker’s alter-ego? The product of a radioactive spider? The bane of J. Jonah Jameson’s existence?…
After The Handmaid’s Tale: 7 Recent, Essential Feminist Dystopias
No one wants to live in a dystopia, but we’re certainly living in the golden age of feminist dystopian novels.…
The Best Comics & Graphic Novels of December 2018
All Marvel, DC, and Image titles are buy two, get the third free at Barnes & Noble through January 14,…
Hazards of Time Travel Follows a Girl’s Harrowing Journey from the Future to the Past
Legendarily prolific, multi-award winning author Joyce Carol Oates hasn’t left too many genre stones unturned in her long career, but…