One of Bruce Steinberg’s first brushes with anti-Semitism came when he was a student at the University of Illinois and was refused an apartment because he is Jewish, he said.
But it wouldn’t be his last. After becoming an assistant Kane County public defender, Steinberg, 50, was twice assigned to represent neo-Nazis.
Now a private criminal defense [...]

Seven years after his debut, the award-winning story collection “For the Relief of Unbearable Urges,” Nathan Englander has finally published a second book. nabokov novel  His publisher must be relieved that it’s a novel. Even readers who end up not liking “The Ministry of Special Cases” ought at least to admire Englander’s good sense.
“The Ministry [...]

Kevin Henkes has more than 30 picture books to his credit and is the author of nine novels for young adults, including “Olive’s Ocean.” The picture-book characters he hangs with include Owen, who loves his blankie; Lilly and her purple plastic purse; the very worried Wemberly; and Sophie, with her unwanted weekend guest.
His latest young-adult [...]

THE MOST OFF-PUTTING THING about Iain Pears’s extraordinary 17th-century detective story An Instance of the Fingerpost (694 pages. Riverhead. $27) is, unfortunately, its title. In fact, one of the few missteps Pears makes in this erudite, funny historical novel is that he doesn’t explain–until page 594–that his title comes from a quote by Sir Francis [...]

Universal has picked up the rights to the Oni Press graphic novel series “The Last Call” and has chosen Evan Spiliotopoulos to write the screen adaptation.
Written and illustrated by Vasilis Lolos and first published in 2007, the horror-adventure series is about two teens on a joyride who get hit by a “ghost train,” which is [...]

Not only are the movies based on comics but the movies have spawned media-tie-in novels. Halo and Indiana Jones have done this as well - not to mention the ever present World of War Craft (War Crack, to some). But are they worth checking out? Do these novels have the same merits the comics and [...]

I love the whole premise behind Hawaiian Dick, the ongoing 1950s private eye comics set in Hawaii. The noir feel of the storytelling and characters is dead-on. The ex-pat main character, Byrd, is well-drawn and has a lot of emotional baggage he’s carrying that only gets opened up in this first graphic novel.
Byrd of Paradise [...]

the South African writer Tony Eprile published his debut novel The Persistence of Memory, a fine piece of writing concerning one man’s recollections of the “slippery and disputed history” of his country.
The Impostor, Damon Galgut’s sixth novel, suggests that a person’s own history can be similarly disputed and slippery. It tells the story of Adam, [...]

The progressive movement has prided itself on its ability to get its messages out by harnessing the Internet, through organizations like MoveOn.org and blogs like Daily Kos or The Huffington Post.
But now a liberal-minded group is returning to an old-fashioned model: a book club.
As with a classic book club, members of the new club will [...]

Hi everyone! I’m a domestic engineer, romance novelist, cookbook author, freelance writer, recipe developer, and freebie fanatic. I hide out in the Pacific Northwest with my high school sweetheart and our two blueberry eyed baby boys, who all have me wrapped around their little fingers.
A song. I’d been writing romance novels forever, but never got [...]