Year: 2004

Book lists are of course a regular part of year end discussions and lists of various types have been posted and linked across the media and blogger landscape. A...

Interesting question first posed at Mark Kleiman’s place (raised by a reader): Are there any modern (say post 1700) novels of high literary merit that can...

I don’t know if you’ve read Greg Iles. He’s been writing thrillers for a dozen years now beginning with SPANDAU PHOENIX, a novel about Rudolf ...

There has been some discussion of the relationship between film and fiction between books and movies based on them (see here and here). Touching on this theme i...

Regular readers are aware that I am a big fan of William F. Buckley, Jr. WFB is a vivid and impactful figure in the history of American conservatism. His life i...

AOL is saying that more men are shopping online now, than women. Not only that, the ISP is saying that men are spending more money online than women. The first ...