Raritania

In an earlier post I argued that there was nothing in the nature of genre fiction to categorically exclude it from the body of work dubbed ...

Sinclair Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Arrowsmith in 1926. The book is not as funny as, for instance, Babbitt (1922), let alo...

Jack London's novel The Assassination Bureau is about the moral dilemmas facing a group of anarchists who contract out their services a...

Just like every other comparable pop cultural phenomenon ( Star Wars , or Star Trek , for instance) James Bond has rather a large army of ra...

At IndieWire Oliver Lyttleton recently offered his list of the five worst Bond films . Unsurprisingly Moonraker , Die Another Day and Lice...

New York: Penguin, 2011, pp. 432. In television and film the crusading reporter who does whatever it takes to get the story is a tired cli...

One of the debates currently roiling the section of the blogosphere devoted to science fiction is the one regarding the relative standing of...

When the question of the original James Bond novels comes up, most seem to mention Live and Let Die (1954), From Russia With Love (1957) o...

I have previously remarked here about the limitations of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels as fantasy , his original conception of 007 as ...

Uncertainty and doubt has always been part of intellectual and cultural life--including that exceptionally large doubt as to whether anythin...