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Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy
In her new biography of the great Victorian writer, Claire Tomalin sees both a genius and a jerk
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NBA Legend Jerry West Opens Up In New Autobiography
For too long, jock books were content with being bland recollections of an athlete's achievements. Not 'West by West.'
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It Sucked to Go Through World War II. Inferno Will Remind You Why.
There’s no point in trying to summarize Inferno, because it’s a book written against summaries. It’s an anti-summary. The author of Inferno is the journalist and military historian Max Hastings, and...
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The Whore of Akron: More Than Just a LeBron James Takedown
The invective poets of ancient Rome had nothing on Scott Raab, whose new book is part LeBron James biography, part memoir, all unabashed diatribe.
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My Friend Dahmer: The Unspeakable Horror of Life in the 1970s
It’s a great thing when you feel that you recognize yourself, deeply and movingly, in a work of literature. It’s kind of unnerving when that work of literature is a graphic novel about a serial killer.
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Grab Life By The Sugar Frosted Nutsack
“I was an infinitely hot and dense dot. So begins the autobiography of a feral child who was raised by huge and lurid puppets.” I’ve always thought that if I had to come up with a two-sentence summary...
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Midnight in Peking: Has Paul French Solved a 75-Year-Old Murder?
Historian and China expert Paul French uncovers the truth behind the notorious murder of a young English student—and offers a rare glimpse of the last days of colonial Peking
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The Liberator: A User’s Guide to Hell
So many stories through the years — novels, movies, plays, TV series, multi-volume histories — have been added to the Second World War’s inexhaustible narrative that, faced with the prospect of a new...
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Book Review: Alan Sepinwall’s The Revolution Was Televised
In the last fifteen years, the ambitious TV drama has evolved, well, dramatically. Going back decades, the standard format, with few exceptions, was to tell distinct, individual stories–police...
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The Teleportation Accident: Finally! A Noirish Sci-Fi Comedic Novel Worth...
Let’s be frank: the literary world has not exactly been clamoring for a post-postmodern noir-inflected sci-fi comedy. But now that it’s here, in the form of Ned Beauman’s pyrotechnic second novel, The...
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R.I.P.D.: Too Awful to Review?
On a torrid late afternoon in Manhattan, Universal Pictures finally let critics see its action comedy R.I.P.D., starring Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds as a pair of deceased lawmen who return to modern...
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