On Showtime's "Homeland," an American ghost story
October 9th, 2012
Their first single was released 50 years ago this month. Mark Edmundson was not a fan.
October 8th, 2012
On the legendary American modernist poet.
September 29th, 2012
The author looks through Romania's literary history for a better understanding of the country’s story – as well as his own family's.
September 9th, 2012
A very different take on l‘affaire Lehrer
August 14th, 2012
On 'Voyager' and 'Address' by Srikanth Reddy and Elizabeth Willis
July 14th, 2012
Noir books by Jake Hinkson, John Rector, Reed Farrel Coleman, Alan Glynn, and Harry Whittington.
January 23rd, 2012
I’d found my thing. I embraced the scary. I befriended it. The monsters and I fell in love, and I didn’t question why. I was home.
October 30th, 2011
2011 is turning out to be a banner year for crime fiction.
September 17th, 2011
The idea that Orwell rather than Huxley was the one to turn to if one wanted a fictional lens through which to see China went virtually unchallenged..
May 20th, 2011
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