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The Top Twenty Literary Characters from the Last Twenty Years

To commemorate its 20th anniversary last summer, Entertainment Weekly published a list of the 100 greatest characters of the last two ...

7 Great Books THE NEW YORK TIMES PANNED

A recent interest in book reviews as a genre led me to Books of the Century:  A Hundred Years of ...

THE CONFIDENCE INDEX: THE HUNGER GAMES directed by Gary Ross

The Confidence Index….in which we assess the chance that an upcoming adaptation of a novel/book/short story/comic will not suck. A ...

Crossover Appeal #3

Crossover Appeal is a weekly feature that challenges the idea that you have to choose a side between YA and ...

THE CONFIDENCE INDEX: Peter Jackson’s THE HOBBIT

The Confidence Index….in which we assess the chance that an upcoming adaptation of a novel/book/short story/comic will not suck. A ...

Words, Football, Nuclear War, and the Delightful Rediscovery of Don DeLillo

If you’re like me, you’ve found two ways to consistently and satisfyingly occupy a fall Sunday: 1. Exploring the vagaries ...

Burn All the Books: Why I’m an eBook Devotee

Yesterday, Kim told you all about why hardcover books suck. I totally agree. And I’ll even go further: books, in ...

Why Ron Weasley Should Have Died

According to my own rules about spoilers, I am compelled to warn you that significant plot points of a variety ...

The Confidence Index: Baz Luhrmann’s THE GREAT GATSBY

The Confidence Index….in which we assess the chance that an upcoming adaptation of a novel/book/short story/comic will not suck. A ...

Drop It Like It’s Haute: The Jersey Shore Booktionary, Volume IV

Welcome to Drop It Like It’s Haute, a weekly celebration of that unholiest of marriages between pop culture and literature. __________ ...