Interview with Russell Banks

Russell Banks, author of Affliction, Continental Drift, Lost Memory of Skin and Rule of the Bone talks to Michael Causey for the Washington Independent Review of Books.

On Negative Book Reviews

What is the place of critical reviews in an online, monetized world?

Interview with Peter Orner

Peter Orner’s new collection of short stories is voyeurism at its best. Each little morsel takes the reader directly into the most intimate minutiae of a stranger’s life.

6 Books about Books

What’s better than reading a book? Reading books about books, preferably ones that overflow with recommendations, bookish characters, author crushes, and themes of storytelling as lifeblood.

5 Ways to Help Your Book Market Itself

How to promote your book without quitting your day job

The Kennedy Library Part 2

Today's commentary is the second of two reviews by Ronald Goldfarb on the vast number of Kennedy assassination books prompted by the 50th anniversary of that terrible event.

Recommended Books for Tweens and Teens: November 2013

The following titles have been selected for this installment of Recommended Books for Tweens and Teens.

Four Words

You need a book synopsis now, this minute, preferably yesterday. Well, here you are: four-word descriptions of some interesting titles. Go!