Family memories, globetrotting mishaps and macabre encounters from a deadpan sensibility.

A look at how the American soldier went from revolutionary musketeer to global cop.

A new book sheds fresh light on the much-maligned "introvert".

Ward Sutton doles out a dozen cartoon takes on the year in reading.

A call to action that challenges readers to reverse the decline of America.

A collection of short stories that light on the mysterious, the beautiful, and the disturbing.

The chilling true story of an extremely self-made man.

Legendary comedian, actor and filmmaker Albert Brooks pens a  satire-flecked vision of tomorrow's America.

When a New Jersey high school puts on a classic Greek drama, a spell descends over the lives (and beds) of local residents.

A legendary interviewer retrieves an array of astonishing moments from over 3,000 conversations with the famous and infamous.

The correspondence of poet Elizabeth Bishop with the famously detail-oriented magazine that championed her.

A wry memoir of childhood in the pop-culture saturated 1970s and 1980s, from a widely-admired cultural critic.

Ward Sutton sends back souvenirs from a journey through the most notable books of 2010.

An illustrated look at the unconventional memoir of an American legend, published, as he stipulated, 100 years after his death.

From the proper way to handle Aquavit to a bar's worth of variations on the Manhattan, Ward Sutton follows this charming odyssey in a cocktail glass.

Ward Sutton's visual review of Rebecca Traister's mashup of memoir and political history.

An illustrated review of Lewis Hyde's new treatise about creativity in the public sphere.

Ward Sutton's illustrated review of Michael Koryta's new thriller about an old hotel, a long-dead local tyrant, and one strange bottle of water.

Ward Sutton's illustrated review of Miguel Syuco's dazzling new tale of an author's mysterious death.

Ward Sutton's illustrated review of Daniel Okrent's new history of America's singular experiment in mass sobriety.

Ward Sutton on Yann Martel's intriguing follow-up to Life of Pi, in which a writer wrestles with a seemingly impossible subject.

A debut novel follows a married woman's affair with a man she meets while traveling -- and raises questions about love, sex, and commitment in an age of missed connections.

"Father Knows Books" returns to cast a cartoonist's (and parent's) eye over a new book for children, about a royal family and an uplifting scenario.

Ward Sutton reviews Charles Glass's new history of how American citizens survived, resisted, collaborated, and sometimes died during the Nazi occupation of the French capital.

Ward Sutton looks at a new annotated and illustrated edition of the letters from one of the most famously tormented personalities in the history of painting.

In a new visual review feature from Ward Sutton, the cartoonist (and parent) looks at Loren Long's new book Otis. Read more...

In the latest novel from John Irving, a father and son are on the run from a Javert-like pursuer.

Dave Eggers makes a novel out of Maurice Sendak's classic picture story. An illustrated review by Ward Sutton.

Ward Sutton's Illustrated review of I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy's Golden Era

Ward Sutton's illustrated review of Pynchon's trip into detective fiction.