Book On The Shelf: The Man In The High Castle
Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle is the most distressed I have…
MAUS: A Tragicomic, Tragic Comic
When Maus first came out, many people were shocked not just at how well Art…
Ellroycast #2: the Public Intellectual
Introducing: the Ellroycast
The debut episode of a podcast about all things James Ellroy, featuring Son of Griff and…
Year of the Month: David “Rosy Fingers” McFarlane on Agatha Christie’s 1934.
1934 turned out to be a banner year for Agatha Christie. Fourteen years into her…
Karel Čapek’s “NOETIC” TRILOGY (Year of the Month)
A shocking murder disrupts the placid surface of a small Bohemian farming community. The mangled…
Year of the Month: Persia on ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
“You should have caught us in better times. We were purists then.” Has any playwright…
Year of the Month: Miller on COLD HAND IN MINE
An’ now people just get uglier An’ I have no sense of time.” — Bob…
Year of the Month: Miller on HOUSE OF STAIRS
Beware — this is also a House of SPOILERS. A brain, an athlete, a basket…
Year of the Month: Persia on JAMAICA INN
“Respectable folk don’t go to Jamaica anymore. That’s all I know. In the old days…