IRRESISTIBLE TARGETS

I'm not sure if, strictly speaking, The Whaleboat House qualifies as a forgotten book--after all it won the CWA Silver Dagger for best ...

My review of Thomas Pynchon's latest novel, Inherent Vice , appears in today's Spectator, you can link to it here . It is a very fu...

Reading Henning Mankell's Wallander in shorter stories provides an interesting perspective into what makes the detective work—and more i...

In many ways, The Draining Lake is my favorite of Arnaldur Indridason's Erlendur novels, and the most ambitious. The discovery of a cor...

Will Eisner's Spirit remains the standard by which all comics should be judged, story-telling that defined the form for generations of w...

Black boy in Chicago Playing in the street Not near enough to wear Not near enough to eat But don't you know he saw it On that July afte...

I will confess to being a little apprehensive when I showed up to see Moon ; a film directed by David Bowie's son, scripted by Alan Park...

I appeared on Saturday Review tonight, discussing the film Moon , the BBC TV series Desperate Romantics, Jez Butterworth's play Jerusal...

My obituary of Alexis Arguello, the boxer and mayor of Managua, is in today's Independent, you can find it here . The list of his survi...

My obituary of Walter Schneir, who along with his wife Miriam wrote the first important book about the Rosenberg trial, is in the Guardian t...

Harold Dodge was the eponymous 'Bird Dog' of Reed's first novel, published in 1997, a spotter of suckers for used car dealers wh...

Thomas Doherty's study of Hollywood's production code, originally published in 2007, is an important book about movie history, not j...