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Thanksgiving Audiobook Review: Nathaniel Philbrick’s “Mayflower”
About the book: Nathaniel Philbrick’s 2006 history chronicles the Pilgrims’ journey from its genesis in turn-of-the-17th-century Britain t..
Halloween Audiobook Review: “Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
About the book: Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella is deliciously spooky. Despite its concise length, it takes its time getting to the ..
Halloween Audiobook Review: “Shock Value” and “Paperbacks From Hell”
About the books: Jason Zinoman cites Roger Ebert’s non-review of Night of the Living Dead as a telling inflection point in the history of ..
Halloween Audiobook Review: “Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus”
About the book: Turning 200 this year, Mary Shelly’s classic is foundational to speculative fiction. Guillermo del Toro worships all thing..
Review: “Solo” Audiobooks Bring an (Overly) Expanded Star Wars Story Into Your Earbuds
The idea that a novelization represents an “expanded edition” of a movie is not news to anyone who met Camie and Fixer in the original Sta..
Audiobook Review: Rosamund Pike’s “Sense and Sensibility” is Cool as a Cucumber
Between Jane Austen’s two best-known novels, Pride and Prejudice is having a moment while Sense and Sensibility is taking a breather. Lizz..
Audiobook Review: Star Wars “Thrawn: Alliances” Pairs a Blue Man with a Dark Lord
Older gen-x fans and writers of Star Wars novels like to wax nostalgic about the late ’70s, when books like Splinter of the Mind’s Eye and..
Audiobook Review: Maria Hummel’s “Still Lives” is, Indeed, Inert
Listening to Maria Hummel’s Still Lives shortly after Megan Miranda’s All the Missing Girls (2016), I realized I’d stumbled onto a contemp..
Audiobook Review: Han and Chewie’s summer adventures — for teens!
If Solo: A Star Wars Story is disappointing at the box office, it can’t be blamed on the crew at Penguin Random House Audio, who’ve been c..
Audiobook Review: Chris Nashawaty’s “Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story”
Part of Chris Nashawaty’s challenge in Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story is justifying the new book’s subtitle. The m..
Review: Audible Turns “Alien: Sea of Sorrows” Into a Charmingly Grotesque Audio Drama
On the face of it, the 1979 science fiction classic Alien doesn’t seem like a strong prospect for sequels — at least, not interesting ones..
Audiobook Review: Daniel José Older’s “Last Shot” is an 11-Hour Trivia Challenge for Star Wars Superfans
Since clearing the Expanded Universe decks in 2014 and declaring that only movies were canon, the Disney-era Lucasfilm has been busily re-..