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Now That Iraq is Over, Where Are the Great Books?

Sometimes it’s difficult to read about subjects that you’ve lived. I’m reminded of my dad, an aerospace engineer, critiquing the ...

Genre Kryptonite: Unusual Dystopias

This is a guest post from reader Michael Strand. He lives in Morris, Minnesota. ____________________________ I first became interested in ...

“Suicide is Preferable”: Ralph Waldo Emerson on Jane Austen

It is pathologically delicious to suspect that one author would hate another and then find out that they indeed did. ...

They’re (Paper) Ba-ack: May 1, 2012

Tuesday is New Book Day. We celebrate each week by highlighting popular titles that are freshly out in paperback. * ...

Pop Quiz! Match These Movies With Their Author References

One of the great joys of being a reader is finding literary references in unexpected places. See if you can ...

Picking Bones with GAME OF THRONES

I recently succumbed to the hype and picked up George R.R. Martin’s Game of Thrones, the first in his Very ...

‘The Godfather’ by Ernest Hemingway and Other Dream Literary Remixes

Last week, Edd dreamed about Cormac McCarthy writing the next installment of the James Bond series. Then this week, Greg ...

5 Books to Watch For in May

There are a bunch of interesting titles being released this month. Here are five that bear special attention. Note: I ...

“The Greatest of Superficial Novelists”: Henry James on Charles Dickens

It’s hard to remember that even the most canonical authors had (and still have) severe critics. Check out this cutting ...

The Death of Bram Stoker and the Birth of Horror

The deaths of famous people always seem more open-ended than our own. Whereas our deaths may be suffused with mystery, ...