We review the new crime novel by Michael Koryta.

There's a good example of how big the book Freakonomics by Stephen Dubner and Steven Levitt simply in the location where I picked it up: late one sleepless night in a Mumbai apartment I was...

One of the downsides of blogging all official-like for SB Nation is that I get quite a few press releases e-mailed to me. PR-types just love to send anything tangentially sports-related to me and...

Way back in February, a publicity group offered to send me a copy of the paperback edition of Seth Davis's book on Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and the 1979 NCAA championship game. I jumped at the...

A little while before last week's release date, I got an e-mail from Algonquin Books asking if I'd like to review Roy Williams' biography. I said sure, and soon enough I was taking a copy out of my...

Review of Light Blue Reign: How a City Slicker, A Quiet Kansan and A Mountain Man Built College Basketball's Longest-Lasting Dynasty. Art Chansky. Foreword by Dean Smith. St. Martin's Press. 342...

Sports Illustrated has had a tough time of things in the last twenty or so years. The sharp cost increases and dwindling profits of the magazine business, the rise of the internet, ESPN's...

When I got an e-mail a couple of weeks ago from a publisher offerring to send me a review copy of Tar Heel Tip-Off, I almost turned it down. Which is odd, because I'm generally fond of free things...