Book review: “The Deathworms of Kratos” by Richard Avery
There’s something deeply attractive to the idea of bad guys doing good things. That was the idea behind the 1965 bestseller by E. M. Nathanson The Dirty Dozen, about a [...]
There’s something deeply attractive to the idea of bad guys doing good things. That was the idea behind the 1965 bestseller by E. M. Nathanson The Dirty Dozen, about a [...]
The cover of Menachem Kaiser’s book features several line drawings of large apartment buildings on an orange and white background that gives the appearance of having been Scotch-taped in place. [...]
I’m the sort who, when reading a novel, looks for the title in the text. Sometimes, it’s not there, but, often, I can find it. And, usually, its placement in [...]
In 1989, Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel about a British butler, was published to great acclaim and great sales. The book was soon turned into a highly praised [...]
Teddy Carella is the hero of Ed McBain’s fourth 87th Precinct novel The Con Man, published in 1957. Teddy — Theodora — was born without the ability to speak and [...]
Elmore Leonard’s novel Split Images opens in this grim way: In the winter of 1981 a multimillionaire by the name of Robinson Daniels shot a Haitian refugee who had broken [...]
At the center of Thomas R. Nevin’s revelatory, deeply felt and actively contemplative 2013 study The Last Years of Saint Therese: Doubt and Darkness, 1895-1897 are nearly two dozen sentences [...]
Early in the first in-depth examination of bravura in art, Nicola Suthor, a professor of art history at Yale, tells the story of Raphael and Michelangelo meeting on the street. [...]
Fred Waitzkin’s 2019 novella Deep Water Blues has the feel of someone leisurely telling a simple modern-day sea saga about betrayal, violence and sharks amid a tropical paradise of cobalt [...]
Robert Stassi, a Methodist minister with two master’s degrees and a Ph. D., is explaining the exterminator business to the new recruit. Stassi is called The Most Dangerous Man because [...]