It’s hard not to binge read a Dean Koontz novel. Koontz’s prose is beyond tight. His suspenseful plots hurl readers…
A Harper’s article on the publishing industry, in need of an editor even more than this newsletter is, lays out,…
The rewriting of Roald Dahl’s so-called kids’ books to avoid alienating progressives who refuse to bring children into the world…
Triumph Regained: The Vietnam War, 1965-1968 By Mark Moyar (Encounter Books, 732 pages, $50) Scholars and writers who challenge conventional…
Roald Dahl: Teller of the Unexpected: A Biography By Matthew Dennison (Pegasus Books, 272 pages, $24) The iconic children’s book…
WASHINGTON — Norman Mailer once told me that the American people respect an eminence merely for growing old. I believe…
It’s been a long year. But in the darkness spread by the many challenges our country faces, this Christmas season…
Portable Magic: A History of Books and Their Readers By Emma Smith (Penguin Random House, 352 pages, $28) We are…
Anyone who doubts detective fiction can be high literature will be persuaded otherwise by just the prologue of Andrew Klavan’s…
