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Red and black
Red-Color News Soldier is a book of text and photographs by Li Zhensheng, who between 1966 and 1980, throughout Mao's Cultural...
Forward into the past
Yesterday at a used bookstore in New York, I got a Sixties paperback of Letters from the Earth, a collection of Mark Twain pieces that he...
For the curious
Thinking three things about Robinson Crusoe today: 1. I had a children's version of this from Scholastic Book Club, a severe condensation...
Harriet
Yesterday I realized a minor ambition of a few years' standing and read Harriet the Spy. I discovered I love this book and I love this...
Blowing in the wind
On Halloween, one last recommendation for lovers of the ghost story.
Missing time
The third installment in my pre-Halloween series: Robert M. Coates, parallel reality, and the ghost story without ghosts.
Kevin Courrier (1954-2018)
Kevin Courrier, editor, colleague, and friend, died on October 12, after a three-year fight with cancer. It was a good fight, and as...
It called itself "Gef"
The second of my pre-Halloween ghostlies at Critics at Large. This is about a talking mongoose, or a spirit weasel. It sounds funny. It...
The haunted inn
For Halloween month, I'm writing a weekly series focusing on a few of my favorite supernatural works. First up: the iterations and...
I will go to Korea
Thoughts on the successive and singular permutations (novel, film, sitcom) of a familiar and beloved comedic property.
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