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Quentin Blake , the artist and author best known for his illustrations of Roald Dahl’s children’s books, recently collaborated with author D...

The current featured contributor to Writers Read: Maggie Anton , author of the Rashi's Daughters trilogy -- Book I: Joheved , Book II:...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: "The Courtesan Chronicles" by Claudia Dain . The entry begins: This is so easy, the actor part ...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Wormwood, Nevada by David Oppegaard . About the book , from the publisher: Tyler and Anna Mayfield...

Salon.com's Laura Miller named her five best nonfiction books of 2009 . One title on the list: "Columbine" by Dave Cullen The...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: Power over Peoples: Technology, Environments, and Western Imperialism, 1400 to the Present by Dani...

The editors at Details developed a list of the 25 greatest Gen X books of all time . One novel on their list: The Brief Wondrous Life of Os...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Alisa Libby , author of The Blood Confession and The King’s Rose . Her entry begins: I’m ...

"While people are busy ranking the hit books of the last 10 years," wrote someone at the Guardian , "many a publishing inside...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: Flesh Circus by Lilith Saintcrow . About the book , from the publisher: The Cirque de Charnu has c...

Lev Grossman is Time magazine's book critic as well as the author of the new novel, The Magicians . He named Time 's top ten ficti...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: In the Name of God and Country: Reconsidering Terrorism in American History by Michael Fellman . A...

Sam Anderson of New York magazine picked the books "that we'll still be talking about in ten years ." One novel on the list: ...

Now showing at My Book, The Movie: Sasha by Joel Shepherd . The entry begins: One giant plus for any movie made of Sasha , is that unlike m...

The current featured contributor at Writers Read: Deborah Cooke , author of the fantasy romance Dragonfire series. One paragraph from her en...

Tracy Chevalier is the best-selling author of Girl With a Pearl Earring and other books. For The Week magazine, she named her six best boo...

The current feature at the Page 69 Test: The Good Son by Russel D. McLean . About the book , from the publisher: Recipient of widespread pr...

The current featured group at Coffee with a canine: India Edghill and her Cavalier King Charles Spaniels . Edghill, on how she was united wi...

The current feature at the Page 99 Test: The Scramble for Asia: U.S. Military Power in the Aftermath of the Pacific War by Marc Gallicchio ...

Salon.com's Laura Miller named her five best fiction books of 2009 . One title on the list: "Love in Infant Monkeys: Stories"...