Features
Wednesday, March 4 2009
'This Is Not the Culture I Signed Up For': Alan Moore and Hollywood
Who will watch the Watchmen? Not their creator, Alan Moore. And while he seems to be alone in his condemnation with the latest adaptation of his work, Moore's steadfast position deserves some real attention.
Reviews
Monday, March 1 2010
Posthumous Keats: A Personal Biography by Stanley Plumly
Plumly defies convention and produces a biography that is not only one of the most informative books about the Romantic poet ever written, but also a work of distinct literary merit.
Monday, February 1 2010
Call Me Ahab by Anne Finger
These nine stories perform a kind of speculative insight by borrowing characters from history and literature, all of whom are linked by a common theme: disability, of one form or another.
Tuesday, September 8 2009
The Demon of Dakar by Kjell Eriksson
Kjell Eriksson shows us that when a genre novel tries to develop ideas above and beyond its confines without mastering the basics of the genre first, a real mess ensues.
Friday, August 28 2009
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Promoted as a rebuttal to modern atheist thinkers, notably Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris, this doesn't feel like a cynical cash-in on a recent publishing phenomenon.
