Bookworm

Graphic novelist Chris Ware stretches the notion of the book to fantastic proportions in his latest publication...

Craig Nova's fourteenth novel conveys readers into dark and discomforting realms of the unseen, where human organs are harvested for sale on the black market...

British novelist Martin Amis discusses how a writer makes a good character endearing when readers want to root for the villain in his new work.

Susanna Moore is interested in the things her characters don’t know. Her new novel is a story of innocence and dread.

British writer, Lawrence Norfolk on his new novel of historical fiction and how his desire to write about love and need relates to his epicurean tale of appetite and hunger.

Former US Poet Laureate, Robert Hass explores certain obsessions in his first collection of essays.

In his new novel, how did Michael Chabon dare to speak for black characters and black neighborhoods? Is this novel audacious and usurping? His answers may surprise you.

The prolific young writer talks about his new book, as well as Internet culture, language and fiction.

Neal Stephenson, a sort of contemporary Dickens (from Seattle,) talks about essays and other writing; science fiction and mainstream literature.

Mary Ruefle brings refreshment and beauty to basic instincts and, in the process, creating mystery, surprise and, well, yes, poetry.