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Bloody Sexy Things: Adapting Clive Barker
August 19, 2025Clive Barker has lent his eyes and hands to virtually every medium, from page to the...
What Is Best In Life? Not Conan 3D, Barring A Miracle
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Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
August 1, 2025The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with the...
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
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Book Review: Walks With Men by Ann Beattie
June 8, 2025Beattie, like in so much of her earlier work, leaves a lot to the imagination. Between...
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
April 9, 2025The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
March 13, 2025Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
The Cape May Stories by Robert C.S. Downs
March 3, 2025Rare in our time, the writing in THE CAPE MAY STORIES is superb, even magical in...




