Last night Publishers Weekly reported that Amazon had removed buy buttons from graphic novels from major comic book publishers like Marvel, IDW, Dark Horse, and Image Comics--apparently to rectify a pricing problem with graphic novels. Amazon customers are already wondering about the situation in the online retailer's forums. Here's the scoop: "A source knowledgeable about the situation ...

While the time parameters on this list confound me, the purpose is crystal clear. Booklist recently released their top graphic novel picks from the last year, and I like their style. They have a few choices that have been getting love elsewhere (Stitches, Secret Science Alliance, Meanwhile…) and a few that are completely new to

Young Nikolai, hero, or subject, of Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, is spending the summer before starting college at his family's country house.  He learns to play the piano - "fancying that classical music was easier, and partly for the sake of being original, I suddenly decided I loved German music" - and reads: Reading French novels, of which Volodya had brought a large store with him, wa...

I’ve never had the opportunity to study Woolf in the classroom, and I only find myself in the company of other Woolfians at the annual conference. So when Bonnie Kime Scott invited me to sit in on her graduate seminar at San Diego State University, I jumped at the opportunity. The curriculum includes all of the novels

As a followup to my post last week about U.S. vs. U.K. covers, here's an advance look at one of the novels I'm most looking forward to this summer, David Mitchell's The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet. The U.S....