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Marvel has brought a certain strain of Norse mythology to the mainstream through Thor, Loki, and Odin’s family…

I became a professional traveler. It said “musician” on my tax returns, but if you drew a bar graph illustrating how…

Avid readers will always have more books on their shelves than time to read them, and staying contemporary can be a…

Dave Eggers had me wondering through much of Heroes Of The Frontier whether or not Josie’s take on her life’s events…

Josie is at a breaking point. Carl, the father of their two young children, always had trouble committing to her but…

Deep into The View From The Cheap Seats—a collection of selected nonfiction by Sandman, Coraline, and Stardust…

When Richard Russo published Everybody’s Fool last week, he joined the club of authors who waited more than a decade…

NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub And Other Stories bills itself as the “first tell-all autobiography” of the West Coast…

Bob’s Burgers has a few ongoing gags reminiscent of the Simpsons opening credits chalkboard. Two come during Bob’s…

Your advent calendar is almost emptied of chocolate, family time looms, and you still don’t have presents for…

After a stellar year for the written word, The A.V. Club provides some of our favorite books for your consideration…

With the subtitle “How Science Fiction Technology Became Reality And Shapes The Future,” Ten Billion Tomorrows seeks…

There’s no room for subtlety in the YA fiction market, at least not in the minds of Tom DeLonge and Suzanne Young,…

Up to this point, the absurdist humor of Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim has been confined to the audiovisual…

Daniel Bryan is known by wrestling fans around the globe as World Wrestling Entertainment’s ultimate underdog: a…

Near the end of child actor Lisa Jakub’s memoir, she recounts why she left L.A. to a group of ladies in a quilting…

In chapter 11 of Gumption, Nick Offerman handily refutes the idea that Yoko Ono was responsible for the breakup of…

Black Sabbath occupies an interesting spot in music history. The band is credited by many as the genesis of heavy…

Early on in his collection of essays, Kent Russell recounts a few anecdotes from a biography of frontiersman Daniel…