prose-fiction
Fiction Friday

This week's issue of The Culture Alliance's Fiction Friday newsletter includes John J. Mil...

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Fiction Friday: Father Dowling, an Extraordinary Story, and More

In the latest issue of its weekly newsletter on prose fiction, The Culture Alliance shines...

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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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The Marxist founder of ‘Free Press’ and the group’s agenda to impose socialism on the Internet

 Far-left groups that specialize in technology policy — the most prominent of w...

mysteries
Scifi Story Imagines U.S. As Socialist State

TAC correspondent Mike Gray has landed two short fiction stories in the latest edition of ...

prose-fiction
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‘The Red Right Hand’ Praised

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

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‘Last Templar’ Shows Value of Cultural Freedom

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

prose-fiction
Mike Gray on Cosmic Justice

TAC contributor Mike Gray has an interesting short story in the current issue of the South...

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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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Alleged ‘Twilight’ Prudishness Might Be a Good Cultural Sign

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

prose-fiction
Conclusion of ‘A Clockwork Orange’ Has Important Social Implications

Given the importance of the issue of personal responsibility in current cultural and socia...

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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 ...

prose-fiction
Spy Novelist Le Carre Contemplated Defecting to Soviet Union: Report

  The acclaimed spy novelist known as John Le Carre once contemplated defecting ...

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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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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...

genres
A Defense of Pop Fiction

Here's a preview of an article coming soon on another site. I've been working with the edi...

books
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...

genres
A Dangerous Mystery Writer

TAC Mystery Fiction Correspondent Mary Reed reviews a classic novel by English suspense wr...

commerce
Golden Compass Sliding Outside U.S.

Planned sequels to failed pro-atheism children's film are increasingly unlikely. ...

genres
The Problem with Contemporary Detective Fiction

In an essay provocatively called "The Slow and Agonizing Death of the Private Detecti...

genres
The Value of the Trickster

A classic type of literary and folk-tale character is the trickster, an individual who rou...

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“Golden Compass” Movie Opens Today

The controversial fantasy film The Golden Compass opens today in theaters across the Unite...

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Norman Mailer and the Hipster Cataclysm

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

commerce
Amazon.com Holds Novel-Writing Contest

Amazon.com is holding a contest to find the best unpublished debut novel. The winner will ...

genres
A Very Good Film Dealing with Devil Worship

Tonight at 8:00 EDT Turner Network Television is showing a very underrated movie from 1957...

genres
Master Storyteller

Critic John J. Miller has published a very informative interview with Robert E. Howard sch...

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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...

genres
Breen Demystifies “The Da Vinci Code”

Mystery critic Jon Breen, writing in The Weekly Standard, has offered the best capsule des...