Going viral: A group of isolated scientists encounters a strange “specimen” in Sarah Gailey’s Spread Me
What Gailey has produced owes less to Ridley Scott's Alien than to John Carpenter's 1982 movie The Thing.
Night riders: Keith Rosson’s latest is a vampire novel crossed with a bloody revenge thriller
The lexicon of organized crime is one way in which Rosson blurs the distinction between horror and crime genres in his book.
Wrath of God: CJ Leede imagines the end of the world via a plague and a sect of murderous Catholic crusaders
American Rapture is a blood-soaked, ultra-violent allegory about the hypocrisies and inhumanity of our current political moment.
“Fun in Hell”: Hungarian writer László Krasznahorkai wins 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature
Krasznahorkai has been compared to other Eastern European writers such as Kafka and Thomas Bernhard.
Gas, food, mayhem: Nat Cassidy unleashes a tight, brutal reading experience in his novella Rest Stop
Those who prefer their horror straight up, with no chaser, should definitely check this one out.
Severed arms and spontaneous combustion: Eighteen horror writers address what draws them to the genre
Some authors take the remit quite literally, while others approach the task more elliptically.
A new biography of James Baldwin views his literary achievement through the prism of his various love affairs
Boggs is also adept at illustrating how far ahead of his time Baldwin was.
Trying to learn how to walk like heroes: Peter Ames Carlin’s new book is a deep dive into the making of Bruce Springsteen’s breakout album
There is no doubting the accomplishment of that record, just as there was no question in anyone's mind how important it was at the time.
Eighty years after the bombing of Hiroshima, John Hersey’s indelible journalistic excavation has things to teach us
Hiroshima has been considered a forerunner of the New Journalism that flourished in the 1960s.
Simon & Schuster to publish memoir by Kamala Harris in September
S&S is no stranger to publishing major political books across both sides of the aisle in the U.S.