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Bill Buckley as Novelist

William F. Buckley Jr. began and ended his public career as a writer, and judging from h...

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Murder and Miscreants for Christmas

On a hot August day in a big U.S. city after World War II, a man in a Santa Claus suit m...

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Pronzini Is Astute, Amusing Critic

Gun in Cheek: A Study of Alternative Crime Fiction (1982) by Bill Pronzini Hardcover: Co...

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Information Feeds the Mind, but Story Moves the Heart

Bill Whittle, in his latest PJTV video offering, titled “The Kudzu Curse,” demonstra...

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Twilight Series=Mormon Apologetics + Vampires + Werewolves

Literary scholar John Granger has identified a "distinctively Latter-day Saint theological...

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Q & A with Jon Saboe

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Q & A with Gary Wolf

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‘The Days of Peleg’—A Review

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Welcome to Fiction Friday

 The Culture Alliance’s latest in its work fostering a culture of liberty and p...

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Monsters and the Moral Imagination

Dean Koontz's creatures arm readers with the moral imagination needed to resist utopia. In...

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Book Review: God and the Death Penalty

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‘The Red Right Hand’ Considered and Reconsidered

      Conflicting opinions about the mystery novel The Red R...

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Review: Celebrated Mystery Novelist James Offers Thoughts on Genre

        Mystery writer P. D. James appreciates cla...

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PIGs Without Lipstick

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Book Review: ‘Wolf Hall’

The newly released historical novel Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, sounds very interesting. ...

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More Praise for ‘The Red Right Hand’

Another critic has joined the chorus recommending the superb mystery novel The Red Right H...

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Review: Market Didn’t Cause Financial Meltdown, Thomas Woods Explains

Thomas E. Woods, Jr., Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the...

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Gary Wolf’s Fiction Reveals Hallucinatory Reality of Socialists

Mike D'Virgilio argues that works of fiction can show us how the logical conclusions of po...

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New Installment of Fascinating Viking Saga Published

The latest novel by Lars Walker, the author of an acclaimed series of fantasy novels of ...

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Zombie Culture and the March of Socialism

   Yes, vampires are still a hot media commodity, but zombies are vying to ...

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‘The Red Right Hand’ Praised

       A classic mystery novel has just received some w...

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PBS Dickens Adaptation Politicizes and Vulgarizes Classic Novel

   The latest PBS Masterpiece Classics adaptation of Charles Dickens's clas...

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‘Last Templar’ Shows Value of Cultural Freedom

         NBC's miniseries The Last Templar is an i...

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Fake Holocaust Memoir Canceled, Children’s Book Pulled from Shelves

 By S. T. Karnick The editorial committee at Berkley Books undoubtedly thought t...

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Christmas CDs; ‘In Bruges’; ‘A Clockwork Orange’

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New Books Re-Examine Booker T. Washington, Black Conservatism

       Two new books may mark the beginning of a long-o...

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New Mystery Volume Brings Turbulent ’60s to Life

      A new collection of 1960s and '70s mystery stories pro...

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Goldberg Book Makes Sense of Modern Liberalism

        Are modern, so-called liberals actually fascis...