The Oncoming Hope

I know that the latest episode of Doctor Who seems a bit slight on the surface, but like Gridlock , which had a number of thematic similar...

Imagine someone writing the novel described in Borges' Garden of Forking Paths . You lead a hundred different lives in parallel. You...

When I recovered from the relentless terror of Shirley Jackson's House on Haunted Hill , I searched for another novel that flies out of...

Duty dictates that The Oncoming Hope writes of Veronica Mars. For before The Oncoming Hope adopted a whole range of Doctor Who related al...

The United States Democratic Review must be one of the strangest publications in our nation's brief history. A strong proponent of Jack...

Why people don't talk about Teddy Roosevelt more saddens me. His biography is full of baffling and wonderful surprises (such as this in...

Silver Linings Playbook earns its ending in a way few movies do, let alone recent ones. The film concentrates on something that's usual...

D.H. Lawrence, now mostly remembered for Lady Chatterley's Lover and the censorship trial that followed, also had a stellar career in p...

Every review I've read of Les Miserables compares it to the musical that birthed it, which feels slightly like comparing Texas to Louis...

This Christmas, we wanted to add some literary spice to your drinking. Part of what made Dickens's work come so vividly to life was hi...