Carmen Callil – publisher, author, and feminist firebrand – dies at age 84
"All of us in publishing, and all of us who love books, owe a debt to her publishing genius," says Bea Hemming of Jonathan Cape.
Feral men and murderous TERFs: the post-apocalyptic world of Gretchen Felker-Martin’s Manhunt
This gruesome, often darkly funny novel manages to put a new spin on its central metaphor.
“This will cut down on my reading”: The three types of books Dorothy Parker never wanted to encounter again
"When the author gives me a scene of wild young passion, then I can no longer slog through the immediate follow-up of a tender description of the bendings of wheat in the breeze."
Albert Woodfox, author and activist who spent more than four decades in solitary confinement, dies at 75
On his release, Woodfox, who staunchly maintained his innocence in the murder he was accused of, dedicated himself to educating others about systemic racism.
“A high and beautiful wave”: Revisiting the savage journey of Hunter S. Thompson’s Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fifty years later
Thompson's wild, violent, funny, anarchic book chronicles a motorcycle derby, an extended drug binge, and – most significantly – the corrosion of the American Dream.
In How to Read Now, Elaine Castillo argues for expanding and interrogating unquestioned interpretive approaches toward art and literature
"White supremacy makes for terrible readers," Castillo writes in this collection of provocative and confrontational essays.
In Bad City, journalist Paul Pringle recounts institutional resistance to investigative reporting – from inside his own newsroom
Pringle's book tells the story of a dean at USC who was found in a hotel room with a twenty-one-year-old woman who had overdosed on illegal drugs.
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, and other instances of bad thinking are the subjects of three recent books about our current epistemological crisis
Fake news, disinformation, propaganda, and other elements of a culture that denies reality are corroding our society. These books show a possible road out of this situation.
Claire Kohda and Rachel Yoder mix genre tropes with feminism in a pair of horror-adjacent debut novels
Vampires and werewolves are the genre touchstones that get renovated in these two works of fabulism.
Trauma and revenge on the grindhouse circuit: Kealan Patrick Burke and Joe R. Lansdale provide tales of bloody retribution
Two novels – one from the 1980s and one from the 2010s – showcase the grindhouse-driven mentality of horror's golden age.