The New York Game: Baseball and the Rise of a New City is Kevin Baker’s love letter to the city and the sport and the way they have intertwined for [...]

Some thoughts on re-reading Trevanian’s The Eiger Sanction nearly half a century after I first read it:   The thriller The Eiger Sanction was published in 1972 and quickly became [...]

There are two original sins in P.D. James’s 1994 Original Sin. One is central to the mystery.  The other is a mournful shadow of history. The story also features the [...]

Salman Rushdie’s 1990 novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories is joyous, inventive, delightful, funny, fun, enticing, stimulating, dazzling and playful. It opens with a sentence about “a sad city, [...]

Less than two years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was the victim of a stabbing attack that left him near death. His newly published nonfiction book Knife: Meditations After an Attempted [...]

  The paperback novel Come Murder Me by James Kieran was published in March, 1951, and Kieran died ten months later at the age of 50. It was a Gold [...]

The Book of Ruth is hardly a book, just four chapters, totaling a bit over 2,600 words. Nonetheless, the story is, writes Illana Pardes, “the most elaborate tale of a [...]

Wee Mad Arthur, terribly short and terribly powerful, is a funny character in Terry Pratchett’s fantasy Discworld which is a planet flat as a pancake and, so, pretty much by [...]