Vanity Fair (Barnes & Noble Classics Series)

It’s too easy to make fun of Dickens World. Who could look at the stuff of Dickens’s fiction—lonely orphans, child thieves, penniless cripples, domestic abuse that culminates in murder—and think, theme park? Located at the Chatham Dockyard in Kent, the park promises to guide visitors through the world in which Charles Dickens lived and wrote, but no […]

I love a good anti-heroine: an unreliable, possibly even unlikeable narrator with her own agenda that often goes against ethics and logic…and sometimes, against goodness itself. But antiheroines are hard to find in romances—those roles usually belong to the dudes! Here are six antiheroines you’ll love to hate (and maybe love, too): Back To Top

The novel has been the dominant form of literature for centuries, evolving and changing in exciting, unexpected ways over the years. Just when you think we know what a novel can do, a book comes along that does something no one ever thought of before. Every now and then that innovation is so powerful, it […]

Put on your leather jacket and turn up the Death Cab for Cutie – The O.C. is back in a big way, celebrating its 20th anniversary this month, and a behind-the-scenes book, Welcome to the O.C.: The Oral History, coming in November. Grab a bagel and settle in with Captain Oats to find out what we think all […]