Today's Featured Book of Color is A Matter of Trust by Anne Schraff. Part of the Bluford High series, A Matter of Trust follows Darcy Wills who is trying to deal with changing friends, a new boyfriend, school, and jealousy. Darcy used to be best friends with Brisana...

Lara provides what is probably the most perceptive take on my 'walking CV' argument in the book. I should probably be giving Lara some money at this point shortly before (or after? No idea) lying on a couch whilst she nods silently as I ramble on breathlessly... Surely all of us – especially...

So I tell you, this blogging-and-being-a-new-dad thing is tough, tougher than I thought. And just as I was entertaining thoughts of beginning this year's holiday hiatus earlier than usual, a lifeline came my way in the form of Katherine Taylor,...

Tate Britain. Auditorium Tuesday, 8 December 2009, 18.30–20.00 Kojin Karatani `The End of Capitalism? Revolution and Repetition' Capitalism may be on the verge of extinction, but it will not end by itself, because states do everything possible to prolong its life. Setting out from Marx's...

...an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one...

NPR’s Studio 360 featured a short sci-fi story by Lydia Millet today. ���Check it out here. ���I had the chance to interview Millet for the upcoming issue of Gigantic. ���Topics discussed: our technicolor society, the slow moving apolcalypse, and ill-fated pets. ���Stay tuned to the Gigantic blog for more info about the issue due out [...]

Gail Buckland wants us to see the work of music photographers accepted as art in its own right.

I realized that what all the unread books on my shelves had in common is that they were ugly. Really ugly.

A look back at the best mysteries reviewed this year