Robert Bingham’s high-toned thriller, Lightning on the Sun, moves nimbly between Cambodia and New York City. An international cast of…
Bob Wake
Shantung with Print Trim Jacket by P.I. Sport N.Y. Diametrically unlike the brooding masterpieces of his mature style, Thomas Hardy’s…
In contrast to several of John Irving’s large-scale comic novels of the past thirty years, Until I Find You likely…
Chaplin and Agee: The Untold Story of the Tramp, the Writer, and the Lost Screenplay – John Wranovic
Any lingering doubt as to the literary stature of James Agee (1909-1955) should be dispelled later this year when the…
Porter Shreve’s 2000 debut novel, The Obituary Writer, was a fresh and engaging shaggy-dog tale narrated by a plucky 22-year-old…
Our review of the New York stage production of Talking Heads Note – UK videos are not compatible with US…
Oblivion is David Foster Wallace’s third and best collection of short stories to date. Without sacrificing his flair for brainy…
Canadian author Michael Redhill spent ten years writing his debut novel, Martin Sloane, published to wide acclaim in 2001. As…
Fifteen years ago, Errol Morris’s documentary The Thin Blue Line famously resulted in freeing an innocent man from prison. Last…
Online references on Francoise Truffaut Only in recent years has Francois Truffaut’s Two English Girls (1971) emerged as a noteworthy…
It might seem cheeky of Masterpiece Theatre to newly adapt Boris Pasternak’s monumental novel about the 1917 Russian Revolution so…
No longer a fashionable writer at the time of his death, British playwright Terence Rattigan (1911-1977) has posthumously emerged as…
First-time mystery novelist D.S. Saunders succeeds like a seasoned pro at grabbing her readers and keeping them guessing until the…
Playfully and at times painfully self-aware, Rick Moody flees from conventional storytelling as if from the West Nile virus or…