Comics: Nothing Can Stop the Juggernaut
/Vultures, black cats, and a gigantic, unbeatable foe: it's a week in the life of your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: Frankenweenie
/Tim Burton's new movie has a surprising amount of heart and soul
Read MoreBook Review: The Iliad
/Homer's Iliad gets a new and unconventional translation into sometimes very familiar language
Read MoreNow in Paperback: The Paperboy
/Pete Dexter's lean, harrowing novel of murder and ambition is coming to the big screen with a full complement of movie stars - and a new paperback edition of the book is a happy by-product.
Read MoreCD of the Week - Glenn Gould: The Schwarzkopf Tapes
/The deeply unlikely pairing of pianist Glenn Gould and soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf was deemed a flop when it took place in 1966--now some of the never-before-published recordings have come out, and they're well worth the wait.
Read MoreGuest Movie Review: The Master
/Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film, featuring a thinly-veiled take on L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology
Read MoreA Man Apart
/Mitt Romney's diatribe at a Boca Raton fundraiser may have torpedoed his candidacy. Was he just pandering, or did he actually mean all of those things he said?
Read MoreFirst Person Singular
/Can a famously cold and impersonal writer like Paul Auster make a memoir of aging that works against his strengths? And are they strengths after all?
Read MoreDignity, Conviction, and Mrs. Stollman’s Checkbook
/ESP-Disk', the cult record label from Bernard Stollman, was known for two things: extraordinary, eclectic recordings and horrendous business practices. A new oral history sheds light on the glorious mess.
Read MoreSongs of Experience
/Sufi mystics, barbaric yawps, and the comedy of the sexes are what's inside Anthony Madrid's new collection of ghazals. What does our poetry editor make of this puzzling Persian pattern?
Read MoreA Hope in the Undead
/The Walking Dead, the hit TV series adapted from the zombie-apocalypse comics, offers fans a gripping and subversive take on the accidents of survival.
Read MoreAs Dark Locks In: Nightfall
/CBC's landmark scare series is available online at last. Where did such a strange series come from and where has it been all this time?
Read MoreTalking about Hats, and Maybe Goats
/Emily Pettit turns nonsense into horse sense, or goat sense, in her new collection Goat in the Snow
Read MoreNine Ways of Looking at D'Annunzio
/Madman, lothario, despot, drug fiend, friend and enemy of Mussolini - and immortal poet. Gabriele D'Annunzio was all of these things and many more in his whirlwind of a life.
Read MoreThe Passage
/a poem
Read MoreLeviathan Grimoire
/Their brains - their digits - their eyes - their locomotion - their families - their staggeringly long reign over the planet Earth: it's all here, and much, much more. The greatest dinosaur reference work just got even better.
Read MoreClaiming the Future
/Julio Cortázar and Gabriel Garcia Marquez brought Latin American fiction to the attention of the world. Now a young crop of writers are trying to move beyond magical realism--a new anthology charts the diverse approaches.
Read MoreAmerican Aristocracy: Gods Of Copley Square - Centerpiece 2
/Henry Adams on the road to Chartres, Phillips Brooks on the Madonna of the prairie, and John La Farge on why he worried Trinity Church had "no heart" -- The Gods of Copley Square continues
Read MoreChange-gamer
/Election-weary Americans might wonder why anybody in their right minds would elect to play a video-game presidential contest - but the process can be oddly enlightening.
Read MoreOctober 2012 Issue
/from "Ink" by Katie Caron
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