Raritania

New York: Random House, 2010, pp. 334. The protagonist of Gary Shteyngart's bestselling novel Super Sad True Love Story is Leonard Ab...

The reception of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy is exactly the kind that brings out the skeptic in me--a book showered with acclaim ...

On last Sunday's New York Times hardcover fiction bestseller list , Jonathan Franzen, Nicholas Sparks and Stieg Larsson are all on top,...

Alan Stanley Blair recently penned a piece at Airlock Alpha on the boom in movies (and television) based on superhero comics titled "E...

Collected in The Forgotten James Bond . Back in April the producers of the James Bond film series announced that the next film is on inde...

Reboot Still, I wasn't terribly intrigued by the idea of the "reboot" that was discussed some time afterward. I'm not big...

Seven Deadly Wonders . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006, pp. 401. The Six Sacred Stones . New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008, pp. ...

New York: Random House, 2007, pp. 288. As Washington Post book reviewer Patrick Anderson notes at the start of his book, the bestseller l...

Earlier, while taking a look at SyFy Channel's first year in my July 20 posting on that matter , I said I'd get in my two cents on t...

New York: Del Rey Books, 2009, pp. 304. "Caryatid" is a term from Greek architecture referring to supporting columns sculpted in...