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Here are some excellent book review sources. We also include two podcasts and a review of children's literature.
Ooo! I really want to see City of Ember! It is a marvelous book that should convert nicely into film. Take a look at the new trailer for the movie, due out on October 10th. Then you can also take a look on IMDB to see the great cast and some stills. It's not a bad season for films based on children's...
You got a problem with that? Why do New Yorkers seem so rude? Joan Acocella wonders... more ... Then there's NYC's suicide tourism. Nina Khruscheva is Russian to the core, but also "as New York as they come." She says it's time for Russians to reread Vladimir Nabokov... more Words perfect for what they mean: jab or fluffy...
May 16: He was mocked during his lifetime, but the 19th-century Scottish poet William McGonagall's reputation is rising
Unassuming in person, Amitav Ghosh pitches his globetrotting books on an ever-grander scale. His latest, Sea of Poppies, brings together exile, empire and the disastrous opium trade of 19th-century India, he tells Lindesay Irvine
Cherie Blair's revelations leave many burning questions unanswered. Zoe Williams fills in the gaps
Douglas Feith's Pentagon memos trace the origin of the current US predicament.
The Way Back Home by Oliver Jeffers. The boy from Lost and Found returns to continue his adventures. This time he finds a plane in his closet, climbs aboard and runs out of fuel when he reaches the moon. But also having vehicle problems is an alien who crashes on the moon too. The two realize they are no...
Chris Hunter served in the British military in Iraq in 2004, performing arguably one of the most dangerous jobs out there. He was a bomb-disposal operator — responsible for taking apart IED's before they exploded. He discusses why, though he left the military 18 months ago, he plans to go to Afghanistan.
Does she insist on dragging you to Sex and the City? The agony. No man should have to sit through this movie. Now, a solution... more James Frey's latest depends not on plots or characters but "high concepts," the bright, shiny clichés that Hollywood screenwriters use for their pitches... more War is horror, wrote...
Annie Proulx, Ludmilla Ulitskaya, Nicolas Fargues and Alissa York will meet at the International Forum on the Novel in Lyon later this month to debate the power and purpose of love in fiction. We present exclusive extracts from their answers to the question 'why so much love?'
