Books  Damn straight I judge books by their covers, and I judged the hell out of Lonely Christopher’s The Mechanics of Homosexual Intercourse   More

Books Jill Lepore made her bones at The New Yorker writing on two subjects she cares passionately about: American history and breast-feeding. I am perhaps unqualified to comment on the latter, but the Harva ...   More

Books It’s been 10 years since Larry Colton reinvigorated the nonfiction sports genre with Counting Coup, the offbeat chronicle of a Crow Indian girl’s against-all-odds quest to lead her high-sc ...   More

Books Mention Tao Lin’s name in a crowd full of concerned readers and struggling writers and watch the room explode. Your dad probably hasn’t heard of him, but where Lin is known and read (or po ...   More

Books Patty and Walter Berglund are staying frosty. Over the years, their love has advanced by the glacially slow accumulation of kindnesses and tolerance. They are helpful neighbors, listeners of NPR, tast ...   More

Books For all the accolades he’s received as a visionary sci-fi author who coined the word “cyberspace” and first romanticized computer hacking, the Canadian author William Gibson is no lo ...   More

Books Science writer Robert Whitaker’s new book about psychiatric drugs is so depressing, readers may want to reach for a Prozac. They’d be better off ordering a dry martini. Whitaker’s t ...   More

Books Space urination: the final frontier. These are the voyages of Mary Roach, the intrepid reporter who dares seek out the baser realities of astronaut life. For those among us more curious about the logi ...   More

Books You can’t help but love Lenny Abramov. It’s not just because he’s the hapless, hopelessly romantic, hilarious protagonist in Gary Shteyngart’s Super Sad True Love Story (Random ...   More

Books You probably already know L.A. is a vast wasteland of commercialism, desperate wannabes, junkies and vapid industry zombies. But New York-based author Tony O’Neill’s going to tell you anyw ...   More