Straddling Two Cultures
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Confessions of a Porn Writer
November 28, 2025“I had been hired to write a movie for the Playboy channel – soft porn. I...
An Interview With Joanne Harris
November 28, 2025"There is a universality to food that makes it easily accessible to the reader, and a...
An Interview With James Hollis
November 27, 2025James Hollis James Hollis, Ph. D. is Executive Director of the Jung Center of Houston, TX,...
An Interview With Novelist Richard Ford
November 27, 2025"Nobody writes good things about New Jersey at all. And I thought, well, maybe that would...
Stripping the Town of Tinsel
November 27, 2025Hilary de Vries The dot com slump, a shift in journalistic standards in the celebrity-driven Hollywood...
Beyond the Balkans – Eric Ambler and the British Espionage Novel, 1936-1940
November 27, 2025Eric Ambler (1909-1998) was one of the foremost architects of espionage fiction as it exists today....
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
November 26, 2025It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
Borges: A Poet’s Quest for Simplicity
November 24, 2025Simplicity requires oneness. If you want to be someone, you are two and you are not...
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
September 28, 2025In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...




