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Reviewed by Leah Greenblatt | A

Reviewed by Tina Jordan | A-

By Ken Tucker Ken Tucker: Check out a non-super-hero comic book that does something new with the vampire genre (with an assist from Stephen King)

Reviewed by Jeff Giles | B+

Reviewed by Ken Tucker | B+

In the past few days I’ve been reading the letters that Henry James wrote to the young sculptor Hendrik Andersen in the early years of the twentieth century. What fascinates me are the things that James has to say about the act of creation. He is beggin

By Darren Franich As DC Comics turns 75, Darren Franich wants an answer: Which classic character is the ultimate superhero? Go!

By Keith Staskiewicz Keith Staskiewicz on word Margaret Atwood will pop up in ''Score: A Hockey Musical''; can she top Kurt Vonnegut in ''Back to School''?

EXPOSURE AND REFLECTION Think about a moment of extreme emotion from your youth or adolescence. It could be a first kiss, or the first time you were caught doing something wrong, or a terrifying moment at summer camp—a memory searing enough to remain vi

By Margaret AtwoodAnthill by E.O. Wilson Anthill is E.O. Wilson's first work of fiction. It contains what its title promises it will contain: an anthill, embedded at its core. Not a metaphorical anthill, a real anthill, filled to the brim with--well, ant

One of the running jokes in On Beauty, Zadie Smith’s third novel, is that its main character is philosophically opposed to beauty. Howard Belsey is a professor of art history at Wellington College, and like all middle-aged professors in campus novels, h

By Michael Tomasky It's chastening to think back to the predictions being made last summer about health care reform, and the assumptions that were widely shared in Washington at the time (certainly by me). Reform would face challenges, and it would never

By Darren Franich As DC Comics turns 75, Darren Franich wants an answer: Which classic character is No. 1? Go!

Raymond Carver: Collected Stories By Raymond Carver (Library of America, 1019 pp., $40) Raymond Carver: A Writer’s LifeBy Carol Sklenicka (Scribner, 578 pp., $35) In the summer of 1984, the Japanese writer Haruki Murakami and his wife traveled to the

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