Alex Heimbach

So many novels are published each year that most of them ago completely unnoticed. Once in a while, a book makes a stir: perhaps it sold for an exceptionally large amount of money or is already being turned into a movie. Very rarely is a book truly…

Everyone loves the idea of photobooths (so much so that Apple invented a digital version), but they've traditionally been dominated by PDA-loving couples and teenaged BFFs. But no longer: the photobooth is now the domain of dogs, thanks to…

The future is currently looking pretty bleak. Global warming remains an ever-present threat. The Kardashians are apparently America's first family. Syria has essentially collapsed and is threatening to take the rest of the Middle East with it. The…

You've probably heard by now that on Thursday, Belarusian journalist Svetlana Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, sparking the usual flood of confusion and congratulations. With no shortlist released and no major limitations on who…

Martin has a new book out today. The bad news: it's not the long awaited sixth installment of A Song of Ice and Fire, Winds of Winter, which still has no set release date. Instead, the new book is a collection of three prequel novellas entitled A…

The very first author I ever went to see read was Phillip Pullman. He was touring in support of The Amber Spyglass, the final His Dark Materials novel, which I had been desperately awaiting after the cliffhanger ending of The Subtle Knife. (I…

It's always exciting when a feminist icon published a new book, but what is Gloria Steinem's new book about? Apparently, My Life on the Road , due out October 27 from Random House, will be "a candid account of her life as a traveler, a listener, and…

This week, readers all over the U.S. are celebrating Banned Books Week by — surprise! — reading banned books. If you’re not already among them, well, you should be. Many of our greatest works of literature have been banned at one point or another,…

Harry Potter fans have entertained a lot of hypotheticals over the years — including whether Hermione should have ended up with Harry, whether the wrong Weasley twin died, and whether it's possible to create butterbeer for real — but here's a new…