Books of the Times: Stories With Mysterious Worlds, Specialized Rules and Inchoate Dangers
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In a short story called âMouse,â part of Michel Faberâs poignantly eerie new collection, âVanilla Bright Like Eminem,â he writes of a myopic video-gamer named Manny and the strange little world he inhabits.
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Locales that are not always where you want to be but are always fascinating
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Steve Fossett's wealth made his epic adventures possible, but his relentless willingness to take risks is shared by other on-the-edge thrill-seekers whose exploits and setbacks have long fascinated psychologists as well as the public at large.
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Revolutionary or unreadable? The long, strange afterlife of David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest
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A physician's arresting debut short-story collection sheds light on the dark corners of doctoringâand tells good tales in the bargain
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By Richard Orange, The Business, London  Feb. 17--Bugging devices, concealed in pens, buttonholes, or 1960s-style  Formica lamps, are part of the mythology of spycraft.
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By Mario Perez, ABC. A plane crash. An uncharted island. A tiny band of frightened survivors. Out of these familiar adventure-story components and a host of pop-culture conventions
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A new book examines the reality and the myths surrounding the legacy of Thomas Alva Edison.
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The Onion Picker: Carmen Basilio and Boxing in the 1950s By Gary B. Youmans, Syracuse University Press , 214 pp., $24.95
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Amazing growing stories are waiting for you to discover them.
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Global politics, seniors in love, fantastical fairy tales, technical glitches and the Weinstein brothers
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Daniel Mason: The story behind "The Piano Tuner," Daniel Mason's debut novel, has become, in itself, the stuff of fiction.
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Thereâs a lot going on under the surface of âFeel the Noise,â far more than its indefensibly generic title suggests.
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Chinese publishers discover that online novel sales help move physical books off the shelves. And for a growing number of authors and readers, epic tales on the web are a thriving art form.
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1. "Double Cross" by James Patterson (Little, Brown and Company)
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A bizarre scenario takes theories of modern cosmology to the limit.
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Tycho:  It's hard to imagine not having access to a deep reservoir of supernatural knowledge to enrich and inform my daily life.  As early as age thirteen I was already curating a collection of incredible facts, highly granular assessments of wicked and ancient lizards, up to and including notes on their diet, sleep habits, and taste in home decor.  From the demure to the diabolical, I have sought to build a robust profile of the hidden world.  My very mind is an arsenal.