Artikel: “The Wire” is NOT like Dickens
“‘The Wire’ is like a Victorian novel” – this facile, cocktail-party insight has been cropping up a lot lately, although it’s hard to see why someone who loves the HBO series about life and crime in...
View ArticleRezension: Damien Echols: “Life After Death”
Everyone knows that Damien Echols has a remarkable, chilling story to tell. He spent 18 years (half his life) on death row for a crime he did not commit. With two teenage friends, Echols was convicted...
View ArticleRezension: Karen Engelmann: “The Stockholm Octavo”
Powdered wigs, poisoned fans and a lively deck of cards: Karen Engelmann’s “The Stockholm Octavo” is a bonbon box filled with treats designed to appeal to lovers of literary historical thrillers.
View ArticleInterview: Oliver Stone
The cinematic renegade talks about Obama, FDR, his new Showtime series and the myth of American exceptionalism.
View ArticleRezension: Caldwell Crosby: “The Great Pearl Heist”
A cat-and-mouse game in the streets of Edwardian London and the world’s most valuable necklace — how is it that no one has turned the true story told in Molly Caldwell Crosby’s “The Great Pearl Heist”...
View ArticleArtikel: Stephen King: My mother-in-law scares me
Novelist Stephen King spoke to creative writing students at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell. One student tried to find out what scares the horror master.
View ArticleArtikel: Birth of the femme fatale!
They were Hollywood’s first female rebels, using their smarts and sexiness to undermine traditonal male power.
View ArticleRezension: Ellen Ullman: “By Blood”
Ellen Ullman is a novelist, critic and computer programmer so well known for her incisive, highly personal writing on technology that when her latest novel “By Blood“ appeared, even the New York Times...
View ArticleFilmrezension: “John Dies at the End”
Exorcists, zombies and bromance – Campy B-movie farce and an ominous allegory in one, “John Dies at the End” is an inventive, crazy genre-bender.
View ArticleRezension (Hörbuch): Lydia Cooper: “My Second Death”
The narrator of Lydia Cooper’s “My Second Death” has antisocial personality disorder. But how crazy is she, really?
View ArticleArtikel: Desecrating Poe
The horror of “The Following” comes not just from the storytelling, but from the way it maligns a literary legacy.
View ArticleArtikel: The case of the celibate detectives
Sherlock Holmes and Hercule Poirot were defiantly asexual. What did Sir Doyle and Agatha Christie have against sex?
View ArticleArtikel: Are the Ravens responsible for the fall of the house of Edgar Allan...
The city of Baltimore — and the Ravens — rely on their most famous writer’s legacy. And they’re letting it crumble.
View ArticleArtikel: Femininjas: Women in fiction fight back
From “Medea” to the “Millennium” series, women characters use stealth, exile and cunning to hold their own against patriarchy.
View ArticleRezension: Kate Atkinson: “Life After Life”
Kate Atkinson’s new novel, “Life After Life,”is not quite a time-travel narrative, but it does dangle before its reader’s nose that most tantalizing of impossible offers, “a chance to do it again and...
View ArticleArtikel: With crowdsourcing, everyone’s a detective now
Reddit got it all wrong. So why do we all think we have the expertise to solve crimes after watching “CSI”?
View ArticleRezension: Claire Messud: “The Woman Upstairs”
A teacher becomes obsessed with a charismatic family in Claire Messud’s fierce portrait of thwarted creativity. As Nora Eldridge, the narrator of Messud’s claustrophobically hypnotic new novel would...
View ArticleRezension: Clare Mulley: “The Spy Who Loved”
Britain’s most glamorous agent: The true story of a Polish countess turned courier and resistance fighter is better than any James Bond novel. The book is likely as substantial a biography as can be...
View ArticleArtikel: Novelists, rewrite your cyberthrillers
Edward Snowden makes the giant cybertakedown look passé. Charlie Huston wishes he’d put him in his novel.
View ArticleRezension: Brett Martin: “Difficult Men”
The story of how the bad guys won, how Tony Soprano, Walter White, et al., bullied their way onto our plasma screens, is the subject of “Difficult Men” Martin’s keenly observed examination of what he...
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