Walter Mosley imbues each and every character with an astonishing degree of detail and genealogical backstory (often rendered within a single, almost impossibly informative sentence) that makes many of these stories read more like biographies in miniature.

The Hearing Trumpet, though coming long after the initial surrealist burst, carries the project forward luminously.

At once a novel of domestic strife, college life and bold, border-crossing adventure, its inherent anxieties are magnified by the world we live in, and all the more so by an unusual publishing strategy.

Gefter’s care in recounting Avedon’s life is a major contribution to the history of 20th century art and culture.

The book's willingness to go deep without being prescriptive makes it a rare read and a valuable resource.

The opening effort of this new series is a promising harbinger of what's to come.

As much a chronological exploration of advancements in mass communication as it is an examination of how each has shaped the broader societal perception of both the presidents and the press.

Streetwise contemporary in its verbiage and strong in its messaging, Washington’s novel lingers, sometimes languishes, but mostly provokes thoughtfulness equally in what it explicitly and implicitly says between the lines.

Out of literary scraps and artistic fragments drifting around us, Knausgaard extracts beauty, wit and nutrition for the hungry mind.

Maerz looks at how a movie that bombed at the box office has taken its place as one of cinema’s purest expression of the listless spirit that comes with being an American teenager.