Library Journal
This Broadview edition includes Wilde's full text along with an introduction, a chronology of Wilde's life, and several appendixes. All that for $9.95 makes this a steal.
“I always feel like as a reader, I always want to go in ready to be changed, ready to be transformed by what I’m reading, ready to be expanded. And that’s what I love about books, they work on you kind of like magic.” Madeline Miller’s novels, The Song of Achilles and Circe, keep working […]
Writing is a strange art form: the whole and the individual parts are equally important. The complete book is a discrete thing, but it can be broken down into characters, twists, and, of course, incredible lines—the sort of lines that make us swoon, lines we carry with us for the rest of our lives as […]
Everybody knows a hardcore comedy fan. That person who has a Simpsons quote for every occasion, or who can discuss and recommend comedy albums the way a music person can key you in to a band you’ve never heard of. There’s so much comedy out there to consume, from movies to TV to standup, but books […]