Review: ‘The Martini Shot’ by George Pelecanos
George Pelecanos is widely considered to be one of the best crime novelists going, but he's never fit all that comfortably into the genre. His writing is properly hard-boiled, his...
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Review: ‘Rainey Royal’ by Dylan Landis
Tall, beautiful and petulant at 14, the title character of Dylan Landis' edgy first novel, "Rainey Royal," has no place to go to escape the craziness of her existence. It's...
Review: ‘O, Africa!’ by Andrew Lewis Conn
Africa has long been a great arena in comic fiction for big-headed white guys to get their comeuppance. Think of Saul Bellow's great "Henderson the Rain King," in which the...
Review: ‘O, Africa!’ by Andrew Lewis Conn
Africa has long been a great arena in comic fiction for big-headed white guys to get their comeuppance. Think of Saul Bellow's great "Henderson the Rain King," in which the...
Review: ‘The Blazing World’ by Siri Hustvedt
In a way, Siri Hustvedt's latest fictional foray into the New York gallery scene — which was also the setting of her wonderful 2003 novel, "What I Loved" — is...
Review: ‘The Blazing World’ by Siri Hustvedt
In a way, Siri Hustvedt's latest fictional foray into the New York gallery scene — which was also the setting of her wonderful 2003 novel, "What I Loved" — is...
Scottish writers lead the way in producing popular crime fiction
As proudly reported in Scottish Life magazine, a British think tank called the New Economics Foundation recently determined that the Scots are the happiest people in Britain, boasting some of...
The 1940s cast a long shadow in Arnott’s ‘The House of Rumour’
The world has hardly run out of deep, dark secrets; good luck finding out the real truth about the wars we fight, the prescription drugs we take, the food we...
Billy Corgan’s salon hopes to inspire conversation
For an establishment called Madame ZuZu's, the host is pretty dressed down: no flowing silk robe or pointy painted fingernails. And even if Billy Corgan could qualify for madame-hood, he...
Year in Review: Why Philip Roth’s retirement matters
Philip Roth says he knew he had written his last novel, that his tank was empty after 31 books, two years ago. But when word of his retirement made the...