How do you measure love? By its intensity, its capacity to change the world? This fall’s indie romances ask readers to see differently, appreciate the unfamiliar, and fall in love with what’s new and dazzling. From a goblin-haunted... Read More
The story of humanity is one of seeking knowledge about existence—whether through connecting to religion, the study of old stories, a love of music, or the age-old practice of looking within for wisdom. This collection of books touches... Read More
There’s only one planet—that we can get to right now at least—at our disposal. It’s time we took care of it and encouraged others to do the same. For information on how to do that, read one of the six books reviewed in our... Read More
To a book lover, gift books may be a term too specifically applied to one subset of literature; all books are gifts. So what inspires the name of gift books when any other book can make its way into holiday or birthday wrapping? Whatever... Read More
Stories have stories, and when these stories are about stories like To Kill a Mockingbird or Frankenstein or Lolita or Charlotte’s Web or another classic, beloved novel, those stories take on great meaning. Of Infinite Jest, in an... Read More
As trends in genre fiction go, you’d be hard pressed to find a more indelible example than the paperback horror novels of the 1970s and 1980s. All manner of depravity, from Nazi leprechauns, psychic spawn, ghost trains, and... Read More
Burning Man, festival beyond words in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, attracts 70,000 utopians for a weeklong experiment in barter, selfless giving, artistic self-expression, and unchecked revelry. But don’t get the wrong idea. The event... Read More
Lonely Planet wants you to visit the far reaches of weird. Are you prepared for three hundred jars of human brains in Lima’s Museo del Cerebro? How about the sight of ten million hay-colored bats flying over your head as you wander... Read More