by Maya Angelou arrived as a writer with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970, though she had already lived several lives by then—as…
Montague Rhodes James wrote his ghost stories as Christmas entertainments for colleagues at King's College, Cambridge, reading them aloud by candlelight to an audience of…
There is a certain shock of reading A Clockwork Orange, and shock was certainly what Anthony Burgess intended. Yet what makes the novel endure beyond…
That The Hobbit is a childhood favorite of many readers reminds us that Tolkien's slim 1937 novel remains, for all its later expansion into epic,…
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein has never quite escaped the reputation of being more referenced than read. What comes to us now, two centuries after its publication,…
With Christopher Nolan's adaptation arriving in cinemas, The Odyssey once again reminds us why certain stories refuse to recede into the archive of cultural memory.…
That The Hobbit is a childhood favorite of many readers reminds us that Tolkien's slim 1937 novel remains, for all its later expansion into epic,…
With Christopher Nolan's adaptation arriving in cinemas, The Odyssey once again reminds us why certain stories refuse to recede into the archive of cultural memory.…
Title: Dead Lions Series: Slough House (Book 2) Author: Mick Herron US Publisher: Soho Crime (an imprint of Soho Press) If James Bond is the…
There is a specific kind of loneliness reserved for the fictional private eye, but in Lawrence Block’s 1982 masterpiece Eight Million Ways to Die, that…
The Guards Jack Taylor (Book 1) Ken Bruen Minotaur Books / St. Martin's Press (an imprint of Macmillan Publishers) Jack Taylor is an ex-cop turned…
For a long time, the literary establishment treated Ross Macdonald as Raymond Chandler’s slightly less glamorous understudy. But with The Galton Case, his ninth Lew…
In recent years, the media industry has been grappling with the emergence of artificial intelligence as a tool for news reporting. While some news organizations…
Washington, D.C.'s Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, has reopened its doors after an $80.5 million renovation, offering a reimagined space…
The Kindle Fire is burning up the tablet competition -- on the Android side. Amazon.com Inc.'s tablet computer is catching fire on in a big…
Hailed as a masterpiece on its original publication in 1921, Three Soldiers is a gripping exploration of fear and ambition, conformity and rebellion, desertion and violence. Part…
Ever wondered how water gets on the Moon? You might think it's all about the solar wind, which is famous for showering celestial bodies with…
Maya Angelou arrived as a writer with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970, though she had already lived several lives by then—as…
Maya Angelou arrived as a writer with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970, though she had already lived several lives by then—as…
Columns
The Essential Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou arrived as a writer with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1970, though she had already lived several lives by then—as…
The Haunted Antiquarian
The Moralist in Harlequin’s Costume
The Hobbit and the Making of Middle-earth
The Creature We Made
Homer’s Eternal Return