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Martin Goldsmith's outstanding 1939 novel, Detour, which because the basis for the classic 1945 film noir

The Washington Post

Our depressing trend of talking and writing in the exact same dozen phrases and what it says about us

The Daily Beast

A little F. Scott Fitzgerald for May Day

The Daily Beast

Horror master M.R. James saved his scariest tale for Easter

The Daily Beast

Victor Hugo, architecture, the architecture of prose

The Washington Post

What the suicide of John Kennedy Toole says about publishing fifty years later

The Daily Beast

J.P. Donleavy's Fairy Tale of New York and the perfect St. Patrick's Day mix

The Daily Beast

How Stendhal captured love

The Daily Beast

The brilliant. brief diary of ballet dancer Vaslav Nijinsky

The Washington Post

John Keats and the perfect poem for Valentine's Day

The Daily Beast

 The sexton who was Ebenezer Scrooge before Scrooge was Scrooge

The Daily Beast

A merry little Christmas tale of friendship between Sherlock Holmes and John Watson

The Washington Post

The joys of rereading Little Women at Christmastime

The Daily Beast

The thrilling race to discover DNA

The Daily Beast

The history-distorting Thanksgiving poem of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The American Interest

The scariest radio program in American history

The Daily Beast

The bewitching, liminal subgenre where horror meets comedy

The Daily Beast

A rereading of "Casey at the Bat"

The Daily Beast

Why YA fiction is often infinitely better than so-called literary fiction

The Smart Set

Sailing the seas within

The Daily Beast

A baseball diary for the sports lit canon

The Barnes and Noble Review

The making of 2001: A Space Odyssey

The American Interest

Imagination policing in publishing and the real reasons people do not read

The Daily Beast

William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury as the ultimate Easter novel

The Daily Beast

Miles Davis and the best autobiography by a musician

Glimmer Train

Writing in your head as you walk

The Daily Beast

How Dylan Thomas invented the audio book at Christmas

The Daily Beast

Overlooked short fiction for Halloween

Salon

The resonance of M.R. James's creepiest ghost story in the current age of self-deception

The Daily Beast

William Sloane and the perfect horror novel for fall

The Daily Beast

Could F. Scott Fitzgerald rescue modern fiction?

The San Francisco Chronicle

A biography of Thoreau

The San Francisco Chronicle

Karl Ove Knausgaard is comically bad at writing

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Robbie Robertson's autobiography

TLS

Delectable mysteries for Christmas

Sports Illustrated

Wayne Gretzky, scribe

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The overrated Seinfeld

Vice

Cynthia Asquith, the first lady of horror

The San Francisco Chronicle

The San Francisco Chronicle - A boring Chuck Klosterman book that publishing wants you to pretend to care about

The San Francisco Chronicle

A largely pointless David Duchovny novel

The Washington Post

1971, the year rock allegedly exploded (it didn't)

The LA Review of Books

The perfect noir novel, Build My Gallows High

The Smart Set

The charming subgenre of midshipman literature

The Weekly Standard

The hilarity of Booth Tarkington's Seventeen and Penrod novels

The Barnes and Noble Review

Five baseball books to check out

The San Francisco Chronicle

Physics lessons

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The Mysteries of Paris, a fat, fascinating, ripping yarn from 1842 that reads excellently in 2016

The American Interest

F. Scott Fitzgerald often wrote better works than The Great Gatsby

The Smart Set

John Keats and a very special Christmas letter

The Weekly Standard

When it comes to ghost stories, M.R. James is great, but hear hear for E.F. Benson!

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Tom Brady v. Peyton Manning (come on now!)

The San Francisco Chronicle

Dave Thomson's largely middling advice about how to watch a film

The Barnes and Noble Review

The Football Lit canon

The San Francisco Chronicle

Shirley Jackson's odds and sods

The Philadelphia Inquirer

The secret history of Alice in Wonderland

The Smart Set

The early twentieth century husband and wife ghost story writing team of Alice and Claude Askew

The San Francisco Chronicle

Three new baseball books

The San Francisco Chronicle

Orson Welles's last movie

The Barnes and Noble Review

Orson Welles and the 1938 War of the Worlds broadcast

The Spectator

A lost John Ehle classic to rival anything by Faulkner

The Barnes and Noble Review

Schubert's Winter Journey

The Washington Post

Contemporary art

The Paris Review Daily

The great English tradition of Christmas ghost stories

The Barnes and Noble Review

How Star Wars went about conquering the universe

The Boston Globe

A biography of Bill Parcells

Popmatters

M.R. James and the tricky business of the imagination

The Boston Globe

H.P. Lovecraft gets annotated

The Boston Globe

Joe Perry dishes on Aerosmith

The San Francisco Chronicle

Top tier football writing

The Boston Globe

Hopping around with Julio Cortazar

The Smart Set

Conan Doyle's final Sherlock Holmes stories

The Boston Globe

A life of Beethoven

The Weekly Standard

The real Mozart

The Barnes and Noble Review

Collecting the blues

The Boston Globe

A miracle over at Fenway

The Barnes and Noble Review

Clark Ashton Smith's eldritch fictions

The Boston Globe

A voluminous Michael Jordan biography

The Boston Globe

The Red Sox and the best comeback--huzzah!--in sports history

LA Times

A mostly pointless Mariano Rivera autobiography

The Boston Globe

Fyodor Sologub's ingenious The Little Demon

The Smart Set

Another side of Dickens and Christmas, courtesy of "The Signal-Man"

The Smart Set

Delicious radio terrors with a literary twist

The Quivering Pen

Fleming's first time

The Atlantic

Ring Lardner and a baseball fiction masterpiece

Virginia Quarterly Review Summer 2013

Bram Stoker's journals