At The New Yorker, Laura Miller reviews The Hunger Games, a series of young adult novels set in a society in which teenagers are annually drafted to take part in a gladiator-like contest. But more broadly, Miller explores the genre of dystopian fiction and its appeal to teenagers. She attributes it partially to teenagers’ ability to [...]
 She also writes "Life in Comics," a monthly column for Publishers Weekly Comics Week, and collaborates on "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now," a comics column on Robot 6, with her husband, artist Brian Belew. Portrait by Brian Belew. |
About ten years ago, after a couple of bad jobs and something of an emotional meltdown, I took a little more than a year off to work on my writing. The result was about a score of short stories of varying quality (a couple of them received honorable mention in their respective years of The Year’s [...] |
 Amrita by Banana Yoshimoto  Love in the Time of Cholera (Vintage International) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez  Fold Your Hands Child You Walk Like a Peasant by Belle and Sebastian  Mozart: A Life by Maynard Solomon  Living to Tell the Tale by Gabriel García Márquez  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.) by Simon Winchester  Wet Moon Volume 1: Feeble Wanderings (v. 1) by Ross Campbell  Midnight's Children: A Novel by Salman Rushdie  Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut |
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