Boxers & Saints has been longlisted for the 2013 National Book Award for Young People's Literature. Gene Luen Yang's new historical two-volume graphic novel is up for the prestigious US prize. His ...

IROX MAN—W. R. Burnett—Dial ($2.50). Author Burnett’s first book, Little Caesar, was about a Chicago gangster; his second is the tale of a prizefighter. He writes, not for men only, but primarily for ...