An Interview With James Hollis
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An Interview With Novelist Richard Ford
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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...
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
September 23, 2025We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
September 21, 2025So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...




