The latest Books news from Entertainment Weekly's EW.com Fri, 09 May 2008 03:06:05 EDT http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/logo_privacypolicy.gif 289 32 Our picks of books, DVDs, and CDs a new mom or a seasoned one will love to receive on her special day

]]> May 09, 2008 See five new pages of DC superheroes in action. Plus: artist sketches of evil Darkseid, and more

]]> May 07, 2008 May 07, 2008 May 02, 2008 TRAGIC COMIC The Chris Farley Show's oral history recounts the too-short life of the plus-size comedian]]> May 02, 2008 ALIEN NATION Creatures from space infiltrate The Host, a new novel by Stephenie Meyer]]> May 02, 2008 FRAZIER-SHARP WIT Lamentations of the Father collects a selection of Ian Frazier's laugh-out-loud essays from the past 13 years]]> May 02, 2008 PARENTAL GUIDANCE SUGGESTED In The Film Club, David Gilmour offers his dropout son a reel education]]> Sneak a peek at Venom's latest look and some comic-book storylines Spidey will spin this summer

]]> Apr 30, 2008 Why is Iron Man one ego trip away from hitting the hooch? Are Batman's foes more tragic than the Dark Knight himself? Does the Hulk do anything other than smash crap? Here are the best print titles to get you up to speed for their tied-in popcorn movies

]]> Apr 23, 2008 It's National TV Turnoff Week. What better way to celebrate than by reading 15 great books about TV?

]]> Apr 21, 2008 Apr 18, 2008 DAD NAUSEAM In A Wolf at the Table, yet another self-dramatizing memoir, Augusten Burroughs calls his late father a monster]]> Apr 18, 2008 BACK IN THE USSR A cop bucks the Soviet system to hunt a serial killer in Child 44, Tom Rob Smith's crackling thriller]]> Apr 18, 2008 FREEWHEELING WILLIE Joe Nick Patoski's impressively reported biography of Willie Nelson eschews psychoanalysis for many funny firsthand stories of the country legend's life]]> Apr 18, 2008 COVER OF THE ROLLING STONES Steven Kurutz's Like a Rolling Stone chronicles the ups and downs of two cover bands stepping into the personas of Mick and the boys]]> Apr 15, 2008 THE BREAKUP Suzanne Finnamore's searing memoir Split recounts the ups and (mostly) downs of her divorce]]> Apr 15, 2008 CRIME STORY Kate Summerscale traces a real-life murder mystery in Victorian England in The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher]]> Can't wait for new episodes? Grab a sneak peek at a new webcomic project from the folks behind the show

]]> Apr 10, 2008 Fifteen groundbreaking graphic storytellers — including Jim Lee, Brian Michael Bendis, Warren Ellis, and Chris Ware — reveal the first comic book that made them fall in love with the form

]]> Apr 09, 2008 The busy granddaughter of Roald and former plus-size model talks about her debut novel ''Playing With the Grown-ups,'' the difference between herself and the book's main character, and the cookbook she's working on now

]]> Apr 03, 2008 SOPHIE DAHL Grown-ups, she maintains, ''is fiction, certainly with threads of my own life buried in there. If I wanted to write a memoir, I could have written a memoir'']]> Our critics weigh in on Steve Niles and Nat Jones' fun and fantastic big-beast rampage comic. Plus: the screwy punks-on-the-lam saga ''Young Liars''

]]> Apr 02, 2008 An exclusive early peek at Marvel's new comic. Plus: a Q&A with author Brian Michael Bendis

]]> Mar 31, 2008 The author talks with EW.com about his new ''event'' comic, what he and his colleagues discuss while playing ''Call of Duty,'' and why superheroes never really die

]]> Mar 31, 2008 Brian Michael Bendis After Secret Invasion ''the Marvel universe will not be the same.... There will be a huge upset of power in the Marvel universe. Huge'']]> The prolific science-fiction writer of ''2001'' and more than 100 other stories passed away Wednesday at his home in Sri Lanka

]]> Mar 19, 2008 ARTHUR C. CLARKE IN 1952]]> Our take on Michel Rabagliati's charming semi-autobiographical story about a man facing impending fatherhood. Plus: ''Hazed,'' Mark Sable's satirical look at the freshman sorority universe

]]> Mar 19, 2008 PAUL GOES FISHING]]> Warner Bros. will release the first part of ''Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'' in November 2010 with a second movie following in May 2011

]]> Mar 14, 2008 ''Harry Potter'' Seeing as the franchise has grossed billions, it's a wonder the final film isn't being split into a dozen parts]]>