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by | Dec 21, 2025

When I was a little kid, The Wizard of Oz came on TV once a year, usually on a Friday…

by | Oct 30, 2025

The Sandersons Fail Manhattan By Scott Johnston St. Martin’s Press, 352 pages, $29 The title character of Frank Perry’s 1970…

by | Oct 19, 2025

Some time ago, the fine American novelist Walter Kirn (Up in the Air, Mission to America) issued some words of…

by | Oct 9, 2025

Women now go into the field of psychiatry and seek therapy far more than do men. Like novels, life coaches,…

by | Sep 7, 2025

Novelist Stephen King told the U.K. Sunday Times that some of President Donald Trump’s supporters will deny ever voting for…

by | Sep 7, 2025

As they often do for readers of fiction like me, reality and art collided last week. I watched a hideous…

by | Aug 23, 2025

The Zebras From Minsk By James H. McGee (James H. McGee, 312 pages, $14.99) James H. McGee retired after a…

by | Aug 17, 2025

The overabundance of hackery in the mystery genre may cause many people to undervalue the milieu. With good reason, as…

by | Aug 16, 2025

Real men don’t eat quiche, as we learned from Bruce Feirstein’s amusing 1982 spoof book of the same name. Every…

by | Aug 15, 2025

Editor’s Note: This is the last of nine episodes of Scott McKay’s forthcoming novel Blockbusters, offered in serial form as…

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