Book Buzz

[ad_1] Having recently finished reading Maggie Stiefvater’s The Raven Boys for the second time in the course of a month—and if we’re being honest, I think it was less than a month—I feel like it’s high time for me to write about the experience. Because I loved it. I mean, I loved it. I went … Read more

[ad_1] When I was a kid, my dad, the astronomer Carl Sagan, often told me about his first day as an undergraduate at the University of Chicago. It was the early 1950s. He was sixteen. (In those days, clever students regularly skipped grades.) At orientation, someone, a dean maybe, told the incoming class, “You kids … Read more

[ad_1] If you’re excited to see Terminator: Dark Fate this week, chances are you’ve seen the first two films starring Sarah Connor. And chances are, when given a say, you prefer to watch T2: Judgement Day over its progenitor. Which is a shame, really. Because The Terminator is a rare film, particularly where its protagonist … Read more

[ad_1] Who could forget the days of the book fair! I would audibly gasp when I saw the rolling shelves and trunks of books awaiting set-up and then get a dizzying feeling the moment we were released by our teacher into the book fair. Really, anyone who was in grade school in the ’70s, ’80s, … Read more

[ad_1] Halloween may be over, but the scares aren’t! Variety has reported that Clive Barker’s massive horror short-story collection, Books of Blood, is being turned into a feature film for Hulu by the creators of Salem, Brannon Braga and Adam Simon. With Books of Blood spanning six volumes and 30 stories, there was no way they could have fit … Read more

[ad_1] Books with unreliable narrators keep you on your toes. Is what’s happening real? Is it imagined? Will you ever know? Sometimes you find the answers you’re looking for, sometimes you don’t—but there’s something undeniably intriguing about books with narrators you can’t quite trust, even when you’re not exactly sure why you can’t trust them. … Read more

[ad_1] Another Halloween is behind us, which prompts this desperate plea for next year. Some of you may not want to hear this, but: do give the Tékumel and Gormenghast costumes a rest. You may think you’ve come up with an original twist but trust me, whatever it is, someone else did first and better. … Read more

[ad_1] While most procedurals feature members of the police force as their heroes and heroines, not all characters in today’s mysteries are professional detectives. Some of them are people in the wrong place at the right time—or vice versa—and who feel compelled to hunt the truth. In these 16 novels, those who investigate crimes include … Read more

[ad_1] One of the things that the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been introducing into their little oeuvre is the many-worlds theory, with divergent timelines. After hints of it in Doctor Strange, we got a major use of it in Avengers: Endgame, it played a role in Spider-Man: Far from Home, and the next Strange film … Read more

[ad_1] How do you get into the Halloween spirit when even Hocus Pocus makes you skittish? (I mean, hypothetically speaking…) If you can’t handle horror or can’t stomach gore, have no fear—literally! There’s more than one way to celebrate the spooky season. Whether you’re a horror aficionado who’s already read all the classics or a … Read more