Tuesday, February 1 2011
‘Shock Corridor’: The Enemy Within
Sam Fuller’s lurid 1963 potboiler about an egomaniacal journalist going undercover in an asylum strips bare the schizophrenia of postwar America with vicious hyperbole.
Monday, March 22 2010
Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen
Richard Nixon, runaway unemployment, fuel shortages, Uri Geller bending spoons, and the threat of nuclear holocaust. Why was everyone so paranoid?
Monday, January 12 2004
Paranoia by Joseph Finder
Reviewers should never reveal that critical plot pivot early in most suspense thrillers when the reader should stop and think about the protagonist's course of action. The 'give away point' you could call it.
