‘The Princess Bride’ at 50 A look back at William Goldman’s bonkers metafictional novel ‘The Princess Bride,’ which later became a much-loved family film. Kevin Mims 19 Jun 2023 · 18 min read
Roald Dahl’s Forgotten Novel, 75 Years On Before finding fame as a children’s author, Dahl penned the first novel on nuclear war to be published after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima. Christian Kriticos 12 Jun 2023 · 14 min read
The Sardonic Inferno At its best, Amis’s fiction broke open the locked door behind which our culture tries to keep its skeletons hidden. Matt Hanson 2 Jun 2023 · 7 min read
The Dualism of Duluoz An eagerly awaited new edition of Gerald Nicosia’s splendid Kerouac biography provides the definitive portrait of a great artist and a profoundly troubled man. David S. Wills 1 Jun 2023 · 15 min read
The Hammett and Chandler of Gay Detective Fiction How the books of George Baxt and Joseph Hansen changed the genre. Kevin Mims 30 May 2023 · 17 min read
The Girl of the Endless Summer How ‘Gidget’ helped to put surfing on the map. Kevin Mims 12 May 2023 · 20 min read
The Man Who Invented the Modern Cop Novel Joseph Wambaugh’s crime fiction has been much imitated but seldom equalled. Kevin Mims 23 Apr 2023 · 20 min read
Orwell and Socialism Reflections on the Western Left’s fragmented ideology. Michael C. Anderson 21 Apr 2023 · 7 min read
How Do We Define ‘Life’? An excerpt from 'The Edge of Knowledge: Unsolved Mysteries of the Cosmos.' Lawrence M. Krauss 17 Apr 2023 · 6 min read
Remembering Rumpole John Mortimer’s fictional barrister was—like his creator—a rogue redeemed by a fierce commitment to the presumption of innocence. Kevin Mims 1 Apr 2023 · 19 min read
Hormones First. Research Later A Review of Hannah Barnes’s ‘Time to Think: The Inside Story of the Collapse of the Tavistock’s Gender Service for Children‘ Bernard Lane 14 Mar 2023 · 14 min read
Do We Still Need a Women’s Prize for Fiction? It is time to consider retiring awards segregated by the sex of the author. Josh Allan 10 Mar 2023 · 7 min read
The Eyes of Another Dostoevsky’s masterpiece, ‘Crime and Punishment,’ offers a radical reinterpretation of guilt and redemption. Marilyn Simon 31 Jan 2023 · 8 min read
In Memoriam A tribute to five pop fiction writers we lost in 2022. Kevin Mims 20 Dec 2022 · 12 min read
