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June 17, 2014

True story: The author of your favorite bedtime tale also wrote The Pocket Book of Boners.

June 16, 2014

Books that push so far beyond the written word, you’d be missing out if you didn’t read them digitally.

June 16, 2014

New York, Wichita, Los Angeles — celebrate James Joyce’s Ulysses regardless of where you are.

June 13, 2014

At least your dad didn’t abandon you on top of a mountain when you were a baby.

June 09, 2014

Kem Nunn, Pat Grant and Tim Winton might not be publishing-household names, but their surfer-centric fiction is in season.

June 05, 2014

Norman Spinrad’s 1972 novel “by Adolph Hitler" is a still-relevant attack on the connection between our concepts of heroism and fascism.

June 04, 2014

These 10 books are the next best thing to school being out for the summer.

June 04, 2014

Skipping Don Herron’s renowned tour, two New Yorkers try to take a walk in Hammett’s gumshoes for themselves.

June 02, 2014

Tourism for book nerds who would rather see Walden Pond than Times Square.

June 02, 2014

Prom-night jitters? Save room on your dance card for these literary misfits.

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