The novel The Gone-Away World has recieved both rave and dreadful reviews. Peter Chomko, for one, is smitten.

Attending a reading for The Catcher in the Rye is “intellectual masturbation.” If you really want to help, donate a banned book to your local library.

Members of the Prometheus Radio Project help underserved communities set up their own low-power FM radio stations. Now that celebrity reporting is the norm, it’s about time someone else’s voice is heard.

Generation Kill has earned the respect of critics. But what do actual soliders think about the HBO mini-series?

September marks the start of Author Events Season, which will feature more book signings and discussions than you can read about.

Our new columnist doesn’t like lazy beach reporting. But she does like babies.

Peter Chomko reviews Anne Enright’s ‘Yesterday’s Weather’ in this week’s Book Worm.

Just more than one year ago, America lost one of its finest writers – one of the world’s finest writers – of the 20th century.
Kurt Vonnegut’s death on April 11, 2007 did not exactly come as a shock – he was, after all, 84 years old. For many of Vonnegut’s readers, however, facing a world [...]

I usually think of Darth Vader as the worst father in the history of the universe. After all, he blew up his daughter’s planet and chopped off his son’s hand.
But all that seems forgiven and forgotten here. A mass of children clamor around the Dark Lord of the Sith with grins stretching from ear to [...]

REVIEW – Michel Gondry has done it again. The ever-innovative Academy Award-winning writer and director, known for his masterful creativity and command of mise en scène, has filmed another gem of a movie, a heartfelt comedy that is as visually appealing as it is charming in script.
Be Kind Rewind, which stars an eclectic crop [...]