• aux Bob Honey Sings Jimmy Crack Corn—and you won’t care—in Sean Penn’s second novel By Rien Fertel September 9, 2019 | 4:00pm
• aux Becoming Superman is both a gruesome and mundane portrait of the creator of Babylon 5 By Rien Fertel July 22, 2019 | 1:00pm
• aux Under the radar, underrated, or simply missed: 7 books from 2019’s first half that deserve more attention By The A.V. Club, Rien Fertel, Adam Morgan, Kamil Ahsan June 18, 2019 | 11:00am
• aux This Dr. Seuss biography is not just hagiography By Rien Fertel May 6, 2019 | 3:00pm
• aux From a Pandora musicologist, Why You Like It sorts music fans into dull stereotypes By Rien Fertel April 29, 2019 | 1:00pm
• aux Bryan Washington’s stellar debut, Lot, puts Houston on the map By Rien Fertel March 18, 2019 | 3:00pm
• aux A dopey wellness guru misleads his minions in Sam Lipsyte’s latest satire By Rien Fertel January 15, 2019 | 4:00pm
• aux The A.V. Club’s 10 favorite books of 2018 By The A.V. Club, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Danette Chavez, Samantha Nelson, Rien Fertel December 5, 2018 | 12:00pm
• aux Sharon Jones deserves a better biography than the soulless Long Slow Train By Rien Fertel November 12, 2018 | 8:00pm
• aux A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey Into Guns sets its sights on America’s racist gun problem By Rien Fertel October 22, 2018 | 1:00pm
• aux Nico Walker’s tough debut fictionalizes his life of war, heroin, and bank robbery By Rien Fertel August 13, 2018 | 3:00pm
• aux Legendary critic Michiko Kakutani reviews all the president’s lies in The Death Of Truth By Rien Fertel July 16, 2018 | 6:00pm
• aux The A.V. Club’s favorite books of 2018 so far By The A.V. Club, Caitlin PenzeyMoog, Ryan Vlastelica, Rien Fertel, Samantha Nelson June 25, 2018 | 12:00pm
• aux Porochista Khakpour writes illness as memoir in Sick By Rien Fertel June 4, 2018 | 7:00pm
• aux The lily-white Twilight Of The Gods plays a requiem for the giants of classic rock By Rien Fertel May 7, 2018 | 3:00pm
• aux Dave Eggers brews a weak cup of coffee and aspiration in his latest nonfiction The Monk Of Mokha  By Rien Fertel January 29, 2018 | 5:00pm
• aux Wild Things makes a convincing case for reading children’s books as an adult By Rien Fertel August 14, 2017 | 5:00am
• aux Michael Crichton’s resurrected Dragon Teeth should’ve stayed preserved in amber By Rien Fertel May 22, 2017 | 5:00am
• aux Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Refugees will haunt its readers, especially in these times By Rien Fertel February 6, 2017 | 2:00pm
• aux After 75 years of Archie Comics, Jughead is the hero 2016 needs By Rien Fertel November 29, 2016 | 6:00am