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Alleged ‘Twilight’ Prudishness Might Be a Good Cultural Sign

   What the New York Times critic sees as prudishness and Victorian repress...

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Michael Crichton and the Uses of Knowledge

       Bestselling author and TV producer Michael Crich...

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Annotated ‘Dracula’ Reportedly Provides Book’s Original, Very Different Ending

  A new edition of Dracula, the extremely influential 1897 gothic novel written ...

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Revelations: Communitarianism, the NEA, Detective Fiction

    Anti-communitarianism, the National Education Association, and wha...

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Dr. Seuss: Christian Author?

A new book claims the author of the Dr. Seuss stories intended them to convey Christian id...

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A Book with Answers to Everything

TAC correspondent Mike Gray discovers a very unusual, interesting, and enlightening book.&...

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A New Destroyer Novel

The Destroyer series of novels, featuring all-American hero Remo Williams, continues with ...

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Best-Selling Book Shows Market Power of Christian Media

A strange, spiritually infused novel by a troubled Oregonian tech representative has hit t...

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Thoughts on Arthur C. Clarke

The acclaimed science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke was difficult to categorize. That's ...

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The Case for Fredric Brown

The mid-century mystery and science-fiction master Fredric Brown deserves much greater rec...

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The Light in “Dark” Fiction

"Dark" fiction can have highly positive values behind it, writes S. T. Karnick. ...

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The Reality of Islam

One of the greatest difficulties in the West's confrontation with Islam in the past decade...

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Masterpiece Theater Does Austen

Starting this evening at 9 EST and over the next four months, PBS will broadcast The Compl...

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Tie-In Novels for ‘Psych,’ ‘Burn Notice’

After the success of several tie-in novels featuring characters from the USA Network detec...

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More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne: Review

Edward D. Hoch's More Things Impossible: The Second Casebook of Dr. Sam Hawthorne (2006), ...

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The Dr. Sam Hawthorne Mysteries

Edward D. Hoch is one of the very greatest living mystery writers.Of course, you've probab...

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Norman Mailer and the Hipster Cataclysm

Novelist-journalist Norman Mailer has died at age 84, according to his literary executor. ...

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New Spillane Novel on the Way

Mystery writer Mickey Spillane, whose hugely successful crime novels disturbed critics and...

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The Oppressive Realities of the Sexual Revolution

One of the most important presumably unintended consequences of the Sexual Revolution of t...

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Harry Potter’s Homosexual Headmaster

Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling has announced that Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of H...

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Why Johnny Doesn’t Read

Men read far fewer books than women today. That's a documented fact, and the gap is becomi...

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Gore Drops Other Shoe

If you think it's just a coincidence that all of the myriad of problems identified by the ...

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Debunking Economic Myths

As promised earlier today, here is my review of Alan Reynolds's book, Income and Wealth, w...

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The Greatness of Alan Reynolds

In his syndicated column, William F. Buckley pays tribute today to Alan Reynolds, the Cato...

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A Good Overview of the Harry Potter Books

I've seen a multitude of interpretations of the Harry Potter book series, and for me the m...

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Dark “Oz” Film Planned

Normally I hate revisionism, but this looks like it just might work:Warner Bros. and Villa...

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Rowling Along on Mystery Novel

J. K. Rowling, author of the mega-bestselling Harry Potter books, is writing a detective n...

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The 1930s Nancy Drew Films

Our friend Mike Tooney called our attention to the following passage in William K. Everson...

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A Classical Liberal View of the Great Depression

Kathryn Lopez, editor of National Review Online, is one of the very best interviewers arou...

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The Dead Sleep Lightly—Review

My fellow Golden Age of Detective Mysteries afficionado Mike Tooney has written an excelle...

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F. A. Hayek and the Essentials of Classical Liberalism

My essay on the Austrian economist and philosopher Friedrich Hayek in the April 20 print e...

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Crichton’s “Next” Luddite Vision

Science writer Ronald Bailey has put together a very informative and insightful review of ...

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Can We Judge Literature?

I stirred up some concerns among PKD fans with my Philip K. Dick article, which was cross-...