Clinton Heylin is a sloppy writer, and he’s not the critic he thinks he is (when he dismisses […]
Book Reviews
For a college statistics class, I wrote a paper that analyzed the efficacy of the death penalty in […]
Rick Yancey’s The 5th Wave was heralded by Entertainment Weekly as “Remarkable, not-to-be-missed-under-any-circumstances.” Silly me for not missing […]
Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl is a dynamite psychodrama that works as a thriller (the bombshells are fantastic), a […]
I’m a sucker for pop literary time displacement stories, such as The Time Traveler’s Wife and The Post-Birthday […]
A great biography brings its subject to new life for the reader. Peter Ames Carlin’s 474-page “Bruce” (Springsteen) […]
Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One (2011) isn’t billed as YA fiction, but it fits solidly in that genre, […]
