Here in Chicago, you normally have to wait for a month or (often) more for any nominally popular book or ebook from the library. However, th...

Eleanor Catton's debut novel, The Rehearsal , written as her master's thesis, was published when she was only 23 years old. Her fo...

Some novels, you can just tell the writer had an absolute ball writing them — and in many cases, those are the most fun books to read. Tha...

Counterbalanced to my love of New York snob stories is a similar weakness for stories set in poor rural or small town setting about chara...

The cynical, jerky, glib book blogger in me would start this review with something like: " The Interestings ? Ha! Helluva misnomer, t...