This season’s new fiction and nonfiction illuminate our manic world while offering riveting escapes.

America, which turns 250 this year, has has never agreed on much, but it has always been good at telling stories about itself. The Great American Novel has been an elusive idea that a single novel ...

So far everyone’s favorite genius grandpa has spent a whole lot of Rick and Morty‘s ninth season inebriated. That kind of ...

After weeks of brutal fighting in Hungary, Germany's last major offensive was already struggling under mounting losses, fuel shortages, and terrible terrain. Then the Red Army struck back. Hidden ...

With an exclusive introduction by writer and film programmer Gareth Evans, the Quietus presents 'Off With His Head', an ...

I heard “Cannonball” for the first time when I was fourteen. I didn’t know who Kim Deal was, and I didn’t know where her wheezy, distorted vocalizations ended and the equally distorted guitars began.

I’m far too tired for polyamory these days, though the public appetite for reading about it continues to grow. Elisa Faison’s ...

Looking back has never been U2’s thing. They were always about the future, or at least the present, craving to be the best and biggest band in the world. But with the release of Songs Of Surrender—a ...