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.