Campaign for the American Reader

A second edition of Paul Ekman's Emotions Revealed comes out this spring. I've not read the book (and probably won't), but I h...

Richard Zimler put his novel Guardian of the Dawn to the Page 99 Test . About the novel , from the publisher: In an age of faith and f...

I finished Christine Falls by Benjamin Black (John Banville's crime-writing pen-name), a couple of weeks ago, yet I keep putting off wr...

From Mark Sanderson's page at the Telegraph (U.K.): A recent survey in America asked readers what prompted them to buy a book. They c...

Today's feature at the Page 69 test: Charlie Huston's No Dominion . About the book , from the publisher: Joe Pitt’s life sucks. He h...

Last week at the Guardian book blog, Diane Shipley wrote in defense of chick lit . Some of her readers, she now writes: didn't entirely...

Mari J. Matsuda , Professor of Law at Georgetown University, wrote in with a suggestion, which she "read and loved," for the blog...

Snitch Jacket "is a thriller packed full of rich situations and even richer characters, and the fact that it is also very funny does no...

Today's feature item at the Page 69 Test: Chip Heath and Dan Heath's Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die . About th...

Rachel Kadish , author of the novels From a Sealed Room and Tolstoy Lied: a Love Story , answered my query about her current reading with m...

Here's the set-up for Chris Grabenstein's Slay Ride : Two weeks before Christmas, Scott Wilkinson goes on a routine business trip. T...

Last Monday's feature at the Page 69 Test was Joe R. Lansdale's Lost Echoes . About the book, from the publisher : Since a mysteriou...

Lit blogger and short story writer Pete Anderson is author of today's feature at Writers Read . He also wrote a pretty terrific Page 6...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Sandra Parshall's just-released Disturbing the Dead . About the book: Tom Bridger, who is half...

Daniel Drezner has an interesting post at Open University : The Economist was good enough to review my new book All Politics Is Global: Ex...

On 19 March, 1987, Ian Rankin got caught in a sudden snow storm walking home from work. He stopped off at his local Tesco to buy a steak and...

The novelist Richard Gwyn came up with a list of "books in which things end badly" for the Guardian . He suggests that "our...

Brian Freeman 's psychological suspense novels feature detectives Jonathan Stride and Serena Dial. Freeman's debut thriller, Immora...

Today's feature at the Page 69 Test: Jon Clinch's highly acclaimed debut novel, Finn . About the book, from the publisher : Jon Clin...

Deidre Lynch , Associate Professor in the Department of English at Indiana University, is the editor of the Oxford World's Classics edit...