Today's updates to the list of online "best of 2009" book lists: 4thletter! (comics) The Afterword (best books) Alpha Reader (favorite books) Associated Content (top poetry books & chapbooks) Antiblurbs (favourite books) ASCPLTeens (best...

Today's updates to the list of online "best of the decade" book lists: Abra Ebner (best books) Accidental Akronite (top books) Anna Staniszewski (most influential books) The Book Studio (top books) Boston Globe (best books) Boston Globe...

Slate reviews Zadie Smith's essay collection, Changing My Mind. At first glance, Smith's collection looks like a bizarre menagerie: A dispatch from Liberia abuts a study of Obama's language; elsewhere are essays about Forster and Kafka and—stuck...

Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Amo Joy: "In The Distance" from The Dictatoria Soiree Amo Joy: "It's Not an Artist's World" from The Dictatoria Soiree other Amo Joy posts at Largehearted Boy Clock Hands Strangle: "Distaccati" from...

Zak Sally is one of my favorite cartoonists, and Like a Dog collects his best work over the past 15 years. Sally is incredibly inventive, these cartoons differ in theme greatly, but all come together through his dark, foreboding illustrations. This...