If you think your family is weird, dysfunctional or both, you’ll want to pick up Kevin Wilson’s novel, The Family Fang. For nearly their entire lives, Child A and Child B—that is, Annie and Buster Fang—have willingly played their parts in the bizarre performance art pieces dreamed up by their parents, Camille and Caleb. The elaborate hoaxes occur in public… Read More >>

You might not expect the autobiography of a Liberian political activist to be a page-turner, but it is one—and that's because Leymah Gbowee's story is as riveting as a can't-put-down novel. An average teenager when her country was torn apart by civil war, Gbowee found herself fleeing violence on the streets and, after having children with an abusive… Read More >>

Jeffery Deaver reboots the James Bond franchise. keeping all the adventure, the romance and, of course, the license to kill. Deaver makes James Bond his own, first, by scrupulous attention to detail. His James Bond is absolutely Ian Fleming’s James Bond; Deaver has absorbed the canon and been completely true to it, even as he’s modernized it. But at… Read More >>