Raritania

Coming right after The Bourne Identity The Parsifal Mosaic seems to significantly follow that book’s pattern, opening with a scene of viol...

Reading my way through other long sequences of books by popular authors I have often noted that they often produce a number of fairly varied...

In recent years I have generally refrained from attempting to offer comment on immediate events, especially in a news-y sort of way--my rese...

I recall seeing a data set which showed that of some 60 million copies of works of fiction sold in the first half of 2018, some 3.6 million ...

Ordinarily we hear about how science fiction has encouraged technological progress--how science fiction writers set forth ideas long before ...

In reading my way through Robert Ludlum's canon I was particularly late in coming to Trevayne . This was in part because it is one of hi...

Robert Ludlum has more than once incorporated an element of family epic into his books, particularly his World War II-themed work, as with T...

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD In Robert Ludlum's third novel, 1973's The Matlock Paper , the FBI, looking to identify the leader of a p...

I have long felt that writers in every medium are overly prone to writing about writers, and that this is mainly a reflection of self-involv...

When I first started reading Robert Ludlum my first (even though it was long before the movie) happened to be The Bourne Identity , which I ...