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Tolstoy in Queens
Irina Reyn's debut novel, What Happened to Anna K., transports Anna Karenina to Queens, N.Y., where she struggles with familiar issues of identity, social rules, gender and loyalty a century later and a continent away.
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Washed Up by 15
The second thriller from former Cosmopolitan (U.K.) editor-in-chief Sam Baker starring fashion journalist Annie Anderson, Deadly Beautiful, takes a hard look at the too often brief careers of teen models, one of whom, Scarlett Ulrich, may be the victim of a serial killer in Japan.
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Prophets and Plural Wives
The 19th Wife David Ebershoff . Random , $26 (528p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6397-0 This exquisite tour de force explores the dark roots of polygamy and its modern-day fruit in a renegade cult not recognized by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (aka the Mormon church). Ebershoff (The Danish Girl) brilliantly blends a haunting fictional narrative by Ann Eliza Young, the real-life 19th &...
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Fiction Reviews
The Development John Barth . Houghton Mifflin , $23 (176p) ISBN 978-0-547-07248-7 From the iconic Barth come nine darkly comic stories set in a gated community on Maryland's Eastern Shore. In his trademark style—multiple endings, metaphysical musings, breaking the fourth wall—Barth presents a searing indictment of a certain sociological class in the later stages of life, when the...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/23/2008
This week: attack of the Chinese megacity, the stripping life in D.C., the Empiric States of America, a scottish football hooligan in suburbia's peewee soccer league, Alice Munro the mother, a fine new birding guide, and the pleasures of Richard Kern's sexy-creepy-contrived voyeurism. Plus: the latest of L.A. Banks's Vampire Huntress novels, E.E. Knight's new Vampire Earth book, and a standalone novel from Left Behind scribe Jerry B. Jenkins.
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Spring Flying Starts
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Nee Reported Out at DC Comics
According to a report on the comics news website Comic Book Resources, John Nee, DC Comics senior v-p of business development, is leaving the company.
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The Amazing Remarkable Eddie Campbell
Eddie Campbell's latest opus takes on cowboys and circuses and takes him and his creative muse in even more daring directions.
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It’s a Big Manga World After All
Literary agent Yukari Shiina and her agency, World Manga, aim to make the manga world more of a two-way street.
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Funny Business #4: Ignoring the Direct Market
Companies like SLG and Kenzer & Co. have gone outside the direct sales market to sell their books.
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Byrne’s Next Men Returns
13 years after the series ended, John Byrne is reviving his superhero series, Next Men, which will be published by IDW
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Fluffy: A Bunny in Denial
In June Dark Horse will release Simone Lia's Fluffy, a cute but emotionally complex graphic novel about a talking bunny (who denies that he’s a bunny) and his “daddy,” a grown man named Michael.
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Comics Briefly
Shuster Award Winners; New David B. from NBM; PW The Beat: Tokyopop, San Diego, More; Hotwire Comics Show; June Zuda Competition; and MediaBistro Comics Class
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Fiction Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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Children's Book Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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Nonfiction Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
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A Poet in Love
Made Flesh Craig Arnold . Ausable (Consortium, dist.), $14 paper (104p) ISBN 978-1-931337-42-7 “Oh how the heart flares,” Arnold writes, “and melts like wax spilling over a candle's lip”: both the flares, and the excess, find the right voice in this wild second book. A few premises—Persephone and Hades, a “couple from hell” in their underworld; the...
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Web Exclusive Reviews: Week of 6/16/2008
This week's web roundup: the history of whaling; civil rights struggles in Sunflower, Mississippi; the other side of Chinese cooking; changing the world, one family at a time; and a charming collection of filthy phrases. Plus: subversive gardening, unhealthy eating, Dr. Dre's mom and Tennessee Ernie Ford's son.
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Comics Keep Their Cool in the Heat at MoCCA
In spite of a local heat-wave, a cartoonist passing out and an evacuation by the fire dept., this year's MoCCA Art Festival was as busy and as vibrant as sever.
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Medical Manga in the House
Prepare yourself, America, for a new wave of Japanese manga focused, more or less, on the medical profession.
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