Raritania

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 ...

I have often had occasion to remark how crude and foolish--and simple-mindedly prejudiced--popular culture can be when it attempts to convey...

A long time ago I ran into a post in a Google group raising the question of whether JAG 's Harmon Rabb was "Thomas Magnum in Disgui...

At this stage of things I rarely run across anything about World War II counterfactuals that I have not encountered before (and that usually...

Robert Ludlum's name has long been synonymous with the type of thriller he increasingly produced in the late '70s and '80s, and ...

In considering the air war fought between Britain and Germany in 1940-1941 (the Battle of Britain, and the Blitz which followed it) it seems...

I remember years ago reading James William Gibson's comment on the Tom Clancy-style military techno-thriller as a white collar counterp...

I recall being perplexed by WGN's decision to become a part-time news channel ("NewsNation"). After all, we had been hearing f...

At this stage of things there seems little more worth saying about just how far removed from reality the realism-peddling military techno-th...

The military techno-thriller has always been sold on the basis of the plausibility of its scenarios, and the realism of their treatment. The...

Donald Bellisario's JAG had a ten season run and provided the platform for the launch of one of the twenty-first century's biggest ...

I have recently had occasion to think about CBS' reputation as, well, an older person's TV channel. One explanation for that reput...

When I was researching The James Bond We Forget I found myself looking for empirically useful indications of the readership of the James Bo...

Back in the '00s, with social media rather less developed and utilized, it was not uncommon for bloggers to post little announcements or...