Superman Has Left the Building
‘Illuminations’ by Alan Moore, a warning about our comics-obsessed culture
Read more
Author: Christopher Farnsworth
One More Big Score
‘Heat 2,’ a note-perfect book sequel to one of the greatest heist films of all time
Read more
Daniel Pinkwater is Still Going
‘Crazy In Poughkeepsie’, the latest novel from the original writer of books about weird outsider teens
Read more
‘Slow Horses’ is a Near-Perfect Adaptation
Apple+ gives Mick Herron’s spy novels the royal treatment
Read more
Checkout Time
‘The Paradox Hotel’ is an inventive but ultimately frustrating time-travel novel
Read more
Our 2021 Holiday Geek Gift Guide
The best stuff of the year for the comics nerd in your life
Read more
The Immortal Story of ‘Cloud Cuckoo Land’
If we’re all going to die, we might as well go out reading Anthony Doerr’s new novel
Read more
‘UTube’ Breaks None of the Rules
A sadistic paint-by-numbers police procedural novel out of Malaysia
Read more
All the Slow Horses
‘Slough House’, the seventh book in Mick Herron’s series about disgraced exiles from British intelligence
Read more
The World Needs ‘Adventureman’
Image Comics pays tribute to pulp heroes of the past
Read more
‘Afterland’: A World Without Men, Amen
Lauren Beukes’ new novel imagines what happens after a virus kills nearly every male
Read more
‘Devolution’: Evil Bigfoot Attacks!
The latest “oral history” from Max Brooks brings back Sasquatch horror
Read more
The Machines Will Save Us
In Max Barry’s ‘Providence,’ humanity is mostly useless against an intergalactic threat
Read more