When Willingham is at his best, he is the true pied piper.

Augé weaves together memoir and film criticism in 76 elegantly written pages.

More than just your average science fiction story, it's the story of a relationship between a human and an AI Messenger, a queen fighting for her country, and the battle between the future and the past to stop the inevitable.

Julia's life was an enviable one——until it wasn't.

Johnson brings something new to this volume: a focus on a single experiment conducted by each scientist which he finds particularly beautiful.

Little did I know that Frazier was also an accomplished humorist.

The strong points of How to Read a Film are Monaco's broad definition of topics relevant to film studies and his careful attention to technical detail.

Whiting throws enough statistics and facts into the mix to keep things interesting.

Not until 1973 did the American Psychiatric Association removed homosexuality from its list of mental disorders.

Willett's characters are real to anyone who has ever taught adults.

Each essay is self-contained, making it possible to choose those most relevant to your own interests.

How Fiction Works is a marvelously readable appreciation of how Wood's favorite writers achieve their effects.

In spite of its brooding subject matter, the novel maintains a lyrical air throughout, with prose that often borders on poetry.

If I'm less than celebratory about Man in the Dark, it's because Auster has written many better books and seems content in this one to coast on his reputation.

McCall Smith explores the web of human relations with particular focus on the question of what is truth, and whether honesty is always the best policy.

The tone of A Prayer for the Dying reminds me of Stephen King's The Gunfighter…if The Gunfighter were actually entertaining or interesting.

In an instant, the book becomes something to reread, reinterpret and rethink.

Rather than plan for college in the fall, James spends his days trolling the internet, looking for the perfect house in the middle of America.

I was repulsed by the book's narrator, and the more I read, the less I liked him.

The book is an unusual point of view for a cultural history of sorts that is also a guilt-free piece of chick lit.