Paul Constant

The new Beetle Moses collection of cartoons by Harris Fishman is an attractive package. It’s got a hot-pink hardcover book featuring monkeys driving a truck full of bananas off a cliff. One w…

Before the holiday shopping season, publishers are releasing a broad range of new paperbacks and exciting paperback reissues for every reader this month.

“This is the winner of the worst book cover of the year award,” said a customer at Ridgecrest Books up in Shoreline over the weekend. She hefted the new Barbara Kingsolver novel Partita in her hand…

Because it’s October, I’m on my annual hunt for some good horror movies and novels to scratch the seasonal itch. But because the world is such a horror show, I’m very particular about the kind of h…

Emma Cline’s latest novel, Switzy, is about a wealthy old man who is going to Switzerland to die. Because he’s got dementia and his memories are failing him at ever-increasing speeds, he’s planning…

If you’ve been paying attention to literary news over the last few months, you know that Rachel Cusk’s new novel, The Life of M, is supposedly a roman á clef about Natalie Portman. Cusk was suppose…

If you consider yourself to be a sci-fi fan and you haven’t read Harlan Ellison’s short story about an artificial intelligence at the end of human history, “I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream,” you …

Anand Giridharadas’s latest book, Man in the Mirror, is a sharp left turn from his most recent two books, The Persuaders and Winners Take All. While Giridharadas became widely known for the broad s…

Edge of the Circle Books carries titles relating to just about every major belief system, from Wicca to Nordic mythology to Afrodiasporic faiths and more.

Murder Bimbo, Rebecca Novack’s paranoid thriller novel, features a textbook case of an unreliable narrator. The unnamed protagonist tells us the same story, three different ways. The basics of the …

I’m a ride-or-die reader of R.F. Kuang, which is to say I will read everything that she publishes just about as soon as it is available to read. She’s earned my fandom by being fearless in her care…

This month's best paperbacks cover a wide range of horror, as well as a few exciting reissues of lost classics and a couple of historical gems for good measure.

Taylor Tomlinson is my favorite working stand-up comedian. She’s a genuinely funny person who excels at crowdwork and spontaneous jokes, but the thing that really appeals to me is her writing. Her …

Batman: The Animated Series was probably the last TV show I fell in love with as a teen. I was still in high school when it came on the air, and I made it a point of landing in front of the TV ever…

This Saturday, September 26th, I’ll be interviewing Garth Stein and Miranda Mundt about their graphic novels at the Bainbridge Island Book Festival. Stein is the writer of Cloven, a series of graph…

Hildur Knútsdóttir’s debut, The Night Guest, is the kind of cagey thriller that begs you to read it in a single sitting. That’s how I read the book, and Knútsdóttir rewards antsy readers who are ru…

Like Love and Happiness, Angel Down is a novel told in one long gallumphing run-on of a narrative. Love and Happiness is a single paragraph, and Angel Down is a single breathless sentence, chopped …

After the debacle that was Ryan Reynolds’ Green Lantern movie, I never thought I’d be excited about another Green Lantern adaptation again. It doesn’t help that the comics have long since fallen in…

It’s not an original thought to point out that I was absolutely insufferable in my 20s. Most of us were—especially if we devoted our life to artistic pursuits. I look back on myself in those years …

This one is special. I effortlessly fell into Chloe Benjamin’s novel Under Story. There’s not much of a plot to begin with—a woman arrives at an Antarctic research base. She is a scientist but she’…