Year: 2004

The suspense genre covers a lot of ground. BRIMSTONE falls into the territory occupied by John Saul, Peter Straub among others. This isn’t my favorite kind of...

Back in May I received a review copy of the Michael Henry Heim translation of Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. After finishing the short work, I didn’t pos...

I don’t have anything particularly profound to add to the discussion of Checkpoint, NYTBR under Tanenhaus, and Leon Wieseltier’s review, etc (see he...

Here are a few interviews I have run into as I attempt to catch up on my surfing after having been out of town for a few days. Some you might have already noted...

By a Spider’s Thread is the latest Tess Monaghan mystery by Laura Lippman. Not having read the previous works in this series I can’t tell you how it...

Over at Sarah’s, Robert Ferrigno describes a Bay Area cab ride and the search for characters from actual experience. Long before obesity was all the rage ...