A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
July 2, 2025Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
The Weekly Listicle: Misleading Movie Titles
June 29, 2025Sometimes a movie's title appears to be a secret known only to the writer. Sometimes it...
The Weekly Listicle: Worlds Of Fancy And Other Wondrous Places
June 26, 2025A cleverly rendered fantasy world has the power to make us believe astounding things, and to...
Movie Time Nostalgia, Part 4: We Are All Children Of Paradise
June 25, 2025A movie can do a lot of things to an audience. It may move them, amuse...
Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression by Morris Dickstein
April 8, 2025It was on the level of popular culture that the vital "center" of life in the...
Erskine Childers and The Riddle of the Sands
March 20, 2025Set against the backdrop of a yachting trip to the German coast, the story weds a...
Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong by Pierre Bayard
March 16, 2025These books are indeed a kind of witty parlor game, certainly. But though Bayard occasionally gallops...
The Right Side of the Tracks
March 1, 2025Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Murdering Miss Austen
February 16, 2025Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
Brontë in Brussels
January 30, 2025I recently stumbled upon a scene which would have appealed to Brontë’s eye for cross-cultural interactions:...




