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Although Tana French has won awards for crime fiction and mystery/thrillers, including an Edgar, The Keeper is little like our expectation of a mystery novel. While its plot does include a number of ...

If you were going to choose an author to rewrite The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the point of view of Jim/James, it would be difficult to find a better candidate for the job than Percival ...

Our heart is in California, but our interests are everywhere.

Our heart is in California, but our interests are everywhere.

The term “sleeping beauties” was new to me as a designation for artists, technologies, and scientific theories rediscovered after they had become obscure or were initially overlooked. David Byrne came ...

Our heart is in California, but our interests are everywhere. Review by Elizabeth Starkey In The Presidents vs. The Press: The Endless Battle Between the White House ...

In the Preface to The Pornography Wars, Kelsy Burke explains her methodology as a sociologist, writing that she doesn’t assume that others who hold beliefs radically different from her own are liars, ...

A study of skullduggery and heroism, vainglory and stiff-upper lips, the unbelievable odyssey that is David Gann’s latest nonfiction work The Wager also manages to tear at the evils of empire, 18 th ...