Trying to assign bestness to great books is really very hard when they give you such different experiences.But drumrolls please, for it's time for the Bibs awards for 2007. In a year of solidly reading go...

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In this novel, the elderly writer C. — a stand-in for the author himself — squares off against Anya, his reluctant muse. She’s...

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The complete review:In My Unwritten Books George Steiner describes seven book-ideas that never came to fruition, for a variety...

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One of my favorite nonfiction reads of 2007 gets some coverage in TNR, and it's rather mixed.The best parts of Ross's book are a series of loosely connected episodes -- set pieces, really, some of which made their debuts in the New Yorker. There are whole chapters on Sibel...

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Kacie's parents were killed by vampires when she was 5 years old. Now grown up, she comes back home for a brief visit only...

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The Atlantic Monthy goes back into the archive and re-publishes this 1946 review of Ulysses, Finnegans Wake (unfortunately, though, they spell it with an apostrophe), and Portrait of the Artist.A long and hazardous period of probation seems to face a writer w...

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“Do Me,” an eclectic literary anthology dedicated to sex in all its glorious iterations, offers an entertaining if uneven read.

Most writers remember how they first met David Smith, whose business card reads “Librarian to the Stars.”