It's 100 years since the birth of Albert Camus. His book The Outsider is one of a select set of works that generations of disaffected teenagers have turned to as a rite of passage. The 1942 novel, ...

Scholarly books seem planned, rational productions, but they are often ad hoc, arising accidentally and not always going according to design. They also induce mixed reactions from their authors, who ...

Some of the most exciting, memorable science fiction of the past few years has come out in the young-adult section. And then there are books like the much-hyped I Am Number Four, which is pretty ...

I first met the Sandman in Midtown Comics. I was 15, and I made a habit of hanging out on 40th street, in the shadow of the New York Times building. There was The Drama Book Shop, where I would linger ...