Héctor Tobar is a son of Los Angeles, a city of “perpetual cultural mixing.” Here, he guides readers through the books and writers that cut through the city’s layers. Read more
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The man behind the landmark reboot of “The Sandman” comic (and Netflix series) is going strong after decades of writing in just about every format. Here’s where to get started with his books for adults. Read more
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THE WORLD OF FICTION is changing, and it is happening at 1.5X speed. According to British sociologist and book trade expert John B. Thompson, the market for audiobooks has grown astronomically since the turn of the 21st century. Once upon a time, publishers would pore over their catalogs, choosing only a select few titles to produce as audiobooks, a format that tended to account for about 10 percent of a book’s sales. These days, when an audiobook can make up anywhere from one to 50 percent of a book’s sales, publishers cover the spread by producing far more titles. From 2011 to 2017, the number of new audiobooks produced each year grew from 7,200 to more than 46,000. Read more
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In an age variously described as posthumanist, transhumanist, or anti-humanist, an age where inhumane rulers hold sway over large swathes of the globe, an age where artificial intelligence threatens to render humanism a quaint relic from the past, Bakewell makes clear what we risk losing should we fail to connect with our humanist heritage. She distills this credo into three principles: freethinking (which emphasizes our moral conscience and duty to others), inquiry (which privileges reason over dogma as a guide to our lives), and hope (which insists that, though our lives are brief and fallible, we can achieve meaningful things). Read more
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Last night, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) announced the winners of the 2022 Nebula Awards, which honor “the writers of the most outstanding speculative fiction works released in 2022.” Read more
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University of Texas law professor Vladeck debuts with an expert study of how the Supreme Court’s conservative majority has increasingly used “obscure procedural orders to shift American jurisprudence definitively to the right.” Unlike the “merits docket,” where justices issue lengthy, signed opinions months after hearing oral arguments, rulings handed down on the “shadow docket” are unsigned, unexplained, and often released in the middle of the night. Read more
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…the idea of having your book that was published in 2019 become an overnight bestseller because of a tweet from someone calling themselves Bigolas Dickolas is difficult to wrap your head around. It’s made even better by the fact that this is a queer sci-fi novella with poetic writing. Read more
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What bestselling books tell us about how Russians are processing the war. Read more
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The 3,000-square-foot, two-bedroom, two-bath spread opens with an entry foyer, followed by a 30-foot-long gallery that branches off to the bedrooms, kitchen, dining and common areas. The living room and the library, the latter of which Jong used as her office, boast wall-to-wall custom bookcases that house her impressive book collection… Read more
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Authors are strange figures, constantly having sex in graveyards, getting fooled by fairies and engaging in other such activities that remind us they’re all doomed to madness. Read more
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