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Warner Bros. has acquired the film rights to Donna Tartt’s much-lauded Pulitzer-winning 2013 novel, The Goldfinch.…

1. The Family Circus (1960–present)
Is there any comic strip more iconic of the weird suburban bubble that most…

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Just in time to celebrate another year of Comic-Con fatigue (and to celebrate the arrival of the highly anticipated…

“Public domain” isn’t a very sexy term—broadly speaking, it’s where work goes when its intellectual property rights…

It’s become a bit of a critic’s shorthand to analogize a debut novel to beloved works from revered authors; it…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

The Best Man Holiday defied expectations last year by creating a franchise 14 years after the release of the…

An endeavor that takes full advantage of its writer’s long-abiding interest in superhero narratives and the freedom…

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After appearing on several of the year’s “most anticipated books” lists, being thrust into the middle of the Amazon-H…

Today in “racism is bad”: Universal Studios, the filmmakers behind the N.W.A. biopic Straight Outta Compton, and…

Although Elmore Leonard died last summer at the age of 87, that hasn’t stopped the flow of Leonard books coming down…

Following last year’s announcement that Fox Searchlight and Chernin Entertainment are developing the J.R.R. Tolkien…

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a…

Earlier this year Amazon, where the capitalism stork gets all the books before he brings them to your house, went to…

Nadine Gordimer—South African writer of 15 novels, 21 collections of short stories, five essay collections, and…

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Diehards by Erin Feinberg
This coffee-table book skips the usual rock-concert-photography model and instead turns its…

This is shaping up to be author and former television critic Gillian Flynn’s year. The David Fincher-helmed…