A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
March 15, 2024
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
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The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
March 10, 2024A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
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Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
March 9, 2024A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
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Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
December 28, 2023It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
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Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
December 10, 2023Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
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Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
December 6, 2023These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
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The Right Side of the Tracks
November 23, 2023Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
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Murdering Miss Austen
November 12, 2023Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...