On Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire, the first novel in his acclaimed Thrawn trilogy, which relaunched Star Wars franchise fiction after a half-decade hiatus.

On Timothy Zahn’s Heir to the Empire, the first novel in his acclaimed Thrawn trilogy, which relaunched Star Wars franchise fiction after a half-decade hiatus.

Hachette Partworks pulls out all the stops with its Dungeons & Dragons novels collection, bringing books back into print for an impressive collection.

Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt (1990), the second Wheel of Time novel, follows as Rand runs from, confronts, and accepts his identity/fate as the Dragon Reborn.

A curated list of recommended books published by university presses and academic publishers in 2026.

The 2023 narrative cooking game Venba by new studio Visai Games punches above its weight in art, sound, and soundtrack, and tells an endearing story of a Tamil family and foodways.

Robert Jordan’s The Great Hunt (1990), the second Wheel of Time novel, follows as Rand runs from, confronts, and accepts his identity/fate as the Dragon Reborn.

In his first franchise outing, writer-director Zach Cregger eschews obvious sequel hooks for something more devious.

The seventh essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Mervyn Peake’s Titus Alone (1959), the much maligned third and final novel in the Gormenghast series.

Thomas Burnett Swann’s Day of the Minotaur (1966) is his first novel, a sometimes messy, sometimes saccharine, sometimes poignant novel about the final days of the prehuman mythic beings as human c…

Thomas Burnett Swann’s Day of the Minotaur (1966) is his first novel, a sometimes messy, sometimes saccharine, sometimes poignant novel about the final days of the prehuman mythic beings as human c…

The sixth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (1950), the powerful second novel in his Titus series.

The sixth essay in my Ballantine Adult Fantasy reading series, which looks at Mervyn Peake’s Gormenghast (1950), the powerful second novel in his Titus series.