2011 is turning out to be a banner year for crime fiction.
September 17th, 2011
On the legendary American modernist poet.
September 29th, 2012
Their first single was released 50 years ago this month. Mark Edmundson was not a fan.
October 8th, 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
Noir books by Jake Hinkson, John Rector, Reed Farrel Coleman, Alan Glynn, and Harry Whittington.
January 23rd, 2012
On 'Portrait of a Novel,' a biography of Henry James.
December 1st, 2012
A love letter to the riskiest show on cable
February 28th, 2013
The parallels between 'The Pilgrim's Progress' and the 'Book of Mormon'
October 30th, 2012
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
The History of the Los Angeles Hotel in the Twentieth Century: An Interview Roundtable
October 18th, 2012
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"Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you."... More
"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein... More
"There is only one thing that can kill the Movies, and that is education." — Will Rogers... More
"The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it." — F... More
"All lurid, unsavory, gruesome illustrations shall be eliminated." — Comics Code, 1954... More
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead." — Samuel Goldwyn... More
"Mere flim-flam stories, and nothing but shams and lies." — Miguel de Cervantes... More
