Features
Tuesday, January 25 2011
The Best Fiction of 2010
Tucked into this wide-ranging list of comics collections, retro-inspired literature and cross-overs, are glimmers of something sweet, something to temper the usual Literary Drearies we all love and appreciate. And that’s just the way it should be.
Thursday, January 21 2010
PopMatters Picks: The Best of Books 2009: Fiction
More than half of the titles in this year’s selections offer grim portraits of the human condition, some with more wit and optimism than others, and a surprising number of legendary authors complete the portraiture and theme.
Friday, September 4 2009
Airplane Books, Junk Literature, and the Western Canon: All Novels Are Lies, Some Lies Are Better
Reading deeply and widely at the very least makes us less dull and more patient, and it happens to be the only way to make informed, qualitative judgments within and across genres.
Friday, October 28 2005
Beyond Boo!: The Case for Stephen King as Literature
'Decades from now, fans will unearth his tomes and savor their sensational scares the way we lord over Stoker's violent vamp, or Shelley's modern Prometheus.' Bill Gibron assesses the works of horror master, Stephen King.
Columns
Tuesday, January 19 2010
Unfulfilled Desires, Fulfilled Nightmares
As the new millennium accelerates we witness our world consumed by an international economic crisis fueled by unrestricted consumption and greed. Hence, the relevance of Stephen King's 'Needful Things'.
Monday, May 4 2009
Fighting the Flu
The mobilization of the military to control the spread of the current outbreak of a rare strain of the swine flu in Mexico City is right out of Stephen King’s The Stand.
Wednesday, March 5 2008
Standing by Stephen King
Childhood and the end of innocence are vividly portrayed in Stephen King's novella The Body, and Rob Reiner's excellent interpretation, Stand by Me.
Reviews
Friday, February 3 2012
If You Could Change History, Would You? Should You? Stephen King's '11/22/63'
In imagining he has the right to kill another so that he can single-handedly change history, how different is Jake from the fanatical Oswald, who killed Kennedy to bolster his customized view of the world?
Wednesday, November 24 2010
'Full Dark, No Stars': In a Recession, No One Can Hear You Scream
In a version of America, post-economic collapse, the monster that haunts our dreams is no longer Pennywise the Clown. It's Don Draper.
Wednesday, May 12 2010
This is Reminiscent of Philip Roth's "The Great American Novel"
A novella (actually more of a long short story) about a player whose career has been literally erased.
Thursday, December 10 2009
Under the Dome by Stephen King
Not even The Stand had so many major characters come to gruesome ends.
Tuesday, December 2 2008
Just After Sunset by Stephen King
Never, in fact, has King seemed more mature or more sure of himself as a writer.
Blogs
Wednesday, July 20 2011
Wizards, Glass, and Computer Chips: What 'The Dark Tower' Can Teach Us About Gaming's Fourth Wall
A few idiosyncratic passages from the cult classic series by Stephen King may have a lot to say about ludic point-of-view.
News
Friday, January 27 2012
Stephen King knows us all too well
On the afternoon of New Year’s Eve, I spent half an hour or so discussing Stephen King with my colleague David Lazarus on Patt Morrison’s…
Friday, December 24 2010
Oscar-winning director Ron Howard wants to adapt film trilogy and TV series
LOS ANGELES — The creations of Stephen King have been keeping people up at night for decades, but Ron Howard has been losing sleep lately…
Wednesday, November 18 2009
Self-proclaimed 'lazy' author Stephen King releases his 51st novel
"You know, I'm a lazy son of a gun." So says Stephen King: a man who just published a story in the New Yorker and…
