It's 350 miles to Des Moines, I got a full tank of gas, an iPhone full of bookish podcasts and audiobooks, it's dark (well, not real...

The opening scene of David Gilbert's fantastic new novel & Sons shows aging, reclusive novelist A.N. Dyer  forced to brave the ou...

Today is pub day for the most buzzed about novel of the summer: Marisha Pessl's Night Film . Will it live up to the hype? I got a pr...

(This post originally appeared on Book Riot. )  Here we are, the dog days. Doesn’t August just seem interminable? If it were up to me,...

You hear multi-generational epic set in Texas, and your first thought is, "I liked this better the first time, when it was titled Tex...