Updated 2/24/2024

Red-Color News Soldier is a book of text and photographs by Li Zhensheng, who between 1966 and 1980, throughout Mao's Cultural...

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...

Thinking three things about Robinson Crusoe today: 1. I had a children's version of this from Scholastic Book Club, a severe condensation...

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...

On Halloween, one last recommendation for lovers of the ghost story.

The third installment in my pre-Halloween series: Robert M. Coates, parallel reality, and the ghost story without ghosts.

Kevin Courrier, editor, colleague, and friend, died on October 12, after a three-year fight with cancer. It was a good fight, and as...

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...

For Halloween month, I'm writing a weekly series focusing on a few of my favorite supernatural works. First up: the iterations and...

Thoughts on the successive and singular permutations (novel, film, sitcom) of a familiar and beloved comedic property.