The Toronto International Film Festival wrapped up this weekend, and thanks to NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour podcast, I heard about a couple literary film adaptations that really seem worth… Read more »

This weekend, Vulture released a trailer for director Andrea Arnold’s film adaptation of Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë’s classic novel of tragic love and revenge. The film premiered last year at the… Read more »

The Book of Khalid, the first Arab-American novel, stands as the foundational text of Arab-American literature, despite having been out of print in the United States since its first publication… Read more »

Laughter in the Dark was the first of Vladimir Nabokov’s novels to be published in the United States, in 1938, by the then venerable Bobbs-Merrill of Indianapolis. The beautiful jacket… Read more »

Raise your hand if you’ve been to prison. Nobody? Good, we’re all law-abiding citizens here, as are, I propose, most readers interested in books about spending time behind bars. After… Read more »

Ernest Hemingway’s second novel, A Farewell to Arms, has just come out in a new edition from Scribner, and for the first time, it includes the various alternate endings to the… Read more »

Recently, Shelf Awareness pointed us to this wonderful survey of a six-year-old’s judgments on classic books by their covers. The blogger-mom at Strollerderby asked her daughter to tell her what… Read more »

This week Melville House celebrates the latest release in our series of Pepe Carvalho mysteries from Spanish author Manuel Vázquez Montalbán. In Off Side, the pressure is on Carvalho to find… Read more »

Conversations With Chen Xitong, a new book of interviews with former Beijing mayor Chen Xitong, provides a starkly different assessment of events surrounding the Tiananmen Square massacre, claiming the Chinese… 3 / Read more »