The Devil’s Merry-Go-Round of Cape Town Noir
In the past 15 years there has been a blossoming of noir in South African literature — see Deon Meyer and Margie Orford.
All Reviews
Fake Mysteries
Does Bradford Morrow's novel satisfy both its genre and extra-genre requirements?
Zombie Archie Kills the Comics Code for Good
"Afterlife with Archie" is everything the Comics Code Authority stood against.
Sugar and Spice
In horror, the world turns from normal to terrifyingly unpredictable.
Here Be Monsters
Alexander Lumans on Peter Grandbois’s 'Wait Your Turn & The Stability of Larger Systems'
Too Jewish?: The Making of Fiddler on the Roof
Initially investors, particularly Jewish investors, feared that Fiddler on the Roof show be considered “too ethnic,” meaning “too Jewish.”
Where Danger Is
Rebecca Solnit "keeps her faith in the human project, its possibilities. But these will not be easily offered."
All in the Family
Richard Blanco's memoir is "a more complicated story of immigration than most."
Solar Wisdom
"It is not very common that a work of philosophy that deals with beauty is itself beautifully written. David E. Cooper’s 'Sunlight on the Sea: Reflecting on Reflections' is one such work."
The Beautiful, Awful Game of Football
In Defense of Football
The Spectacle of Disintegration: Lessons from a Peripheral Utopia
In Your Choice Lies Your Talent
A Biography of Stella Adler
The Art of Cultivating Friends
Bob Ames was an American who understood Arab culture, who could befriend Arabs.
Committed
Angela Flournoy reviews 'Ruby' by Cynthia Bond
Virtues of Grammar: The Science and Ethics of Style
Intellectual imagination isn’t enough. Persuasion requires the exercise of the moral imagination too.
A Literary Wolf
William Giraldi's "Hold the Dark" is an uncompromising book. In its language. In its outlook. In its journey.
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