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Gift Guide 2010: Graphic novels and comic anthologies

There's something about getting a book as a gift that makes you not want to read it.

By: S.I. ROSENBAUM | December 08, 2010

Interview: Harold McGee

Dr. Food
Before Alton Brown had even opened a culinary-school brochure, Harold McGee had written On Food and Cooking .

By: LINDSAY CRUDELE | December 01, 2010

From Russia with fate

Doctor Zhivago revisited
More than a half-century after its first appearance, Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago is just now getting its second translation into English.

By: JEFFREY GANTZ | November 23, 2010

Interview: Al Jaffee

Mad about the man
Al Jaffee has been a Mad man for 55 years, practically since the beginning.

By: DAN MAZUR | November 18, 2010

Interview: Amy Sedaris

On sausages, short robes, and stealing her new book Simple Times: Crafts for Poor People
These days, money is a bit tight for all of us. Even for Amy Sedaris. Well, not really. But she can empathize!

By: ALEXANDRA CAVALLO | November 16, 2010

As books turn into data and tweets are archived for posterity, how will readers and academics cope with the detritus of a digital age?
A hundred years from now, how will literary historians deal with 21st-century authors like Tao Lin?

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | November 17, 2010

Interview: Matt Taibbi

On Griftopia, Goldman Sachs, and his writing process
Matt Taibbi can make a snake bite funny.

By: PETER KADZIS | November 09, 2010

Review: Keith Richards's Life

Stone spills all — eloquently
The title says it all: Life isn't just an autobiography, it's Keith Richards's Guide to Good Living.

By: JOYCE MILLMAN | November 09, 2010

Interview: Chris Lehmann

Eying the moneyed class
"American class privilege is very much like the idea of sex in a Catholic school — it's not supposed to exist in the first place, but once it presents itself in your mind's eye, you realize that it's everywhere."

By: CATHERINE TUMBER | November 02, 2010

From there to Hereville

Barry Deutsch's troll-fighting Orthodox Jewish heroine
Hereville , one of the most charming graphic novels published this year, began when alternative-comics artist Barry Deutsch wondered why traditional heroic fantasy stories never featured Jews.

By: MICHAEL A. BURSTEIN | November 02, 2010

Writers celebrate Barry Hannah, the biggest literary badass you’ve never heard of

Captain Maximus R.I.P.
Gene Kwak first came across the work of Barry Hannah while studying journalism at the University of Nebraska.

By: EUGENIA WILLIAMSON | November 02, 2010

Review: David Young knows where he's going

Poet's progress
David Young's Selected and New Poems is a good book by a good poet. You'll have to take my word for that, because I am not going to quote from his poems.

By: WILLIAM CORBETT | October 27, 2010

Interview: Oliver Sacks, on The Mind's Eye

Oliver Sacks floats some thoughts on biophilia, smoking pot, and anti-science lunacy
Over the past 40 years, since the publication of Migraine in 1970, neurologist Oliver Sacks has written 10 books and countless articles, examining what happens when specific parts of a human brain go haywire or stop working.

By: AMY FINCH | October 21, 2010