October means mellowcreme pumpkins, finding five bucks in the pocket of last year’s coat (and spending it on more mellowcreme pumpkins), and BOOKS, BOOKS, BOOKS! From the first fantasy YA of a favorite author to a Gilded Age thriller to retellings of “The Wild Swans” and the Orpheus myth, here are 20 of the month’s most exciting […]
Today’s most exciting new releases include a cyberpunk survival story set in space, a sweetly complicated romance set on earth, and an alt-history World War II thriller. These are the books we’re planning Halloween couples’ costumes with right now.
Any adaptation of a book can never truly replace the original work, but it’s often revelatory to experience a story in a new medium; it’s like seeing, if only imperfectly, through someone else’s eyes. The rise of comics as a “respectable” medium is a case in point: Margaret Atwood’s 1986 dystopia The Handmaid’s Tale is receiving a […]