Raritania

As a relative latecomer to the Dr. Who franchise, most of what I know about its pre-2005 revival, on and off-screen, comes secondhand from w...

Readers familiar with H.G. Wells' later writings will likely know what to expect from The Outline of History . Wells' study of world...

Nebula award winning-author Eugie Foster died on Saturday . She was forty-two. I knew her from my time reviewing for Tangent Online and...

My recent post on Tolstoy's War and Peace has been getting a lot of hits lately, and so I thought it worthwhile to write up a quick su...

A summer exceptionally short on megahits came to an end this Labor Day weekend.1 This season, only one movie crossed the quarter-billion d...

Time and again I have been struck by the difference between people how are supposed to read literary classics, and the far less inspiring wa...

The entertainment press is, like the rest of the press, not famous for encouraging a long-term perspective. Slight ups and downs in the mark...

The dominance of the effects-powered science fiction and fantasy spectacle, and with it, the "summer tentpole," is typically trace...

Time and again I have been struck by the paucity of English-language writing on a major historical subject. Large patches of German history,...

I have often remarked here on the trend in the hugely important markets of East Asia (China is the world's second-biggest, Japan's t...

By the end of its fourth season, Game of Thrones became the most watched show on HBO ever . More watched, even, than the storied Sopranos...

Through the '80s and '90s, a typical year saw three R-rated films in the year's top ten earners at the American box office, and ...

Gamers have often held the view that Japanese and Western--e.g. American--role-playing games tend to differ significantly in style. (Indeed,...

When I started taking an interest in literature, I naturally found myself wondering just what made a novel, a novel. Certainly there is a ...

Much has been said of devices like the Kindle changing how we get our books. However, apart from the publicity given to independently publis...