Book review: Know whodunit? That won’t spoil the fun of this stylish novel.
By the time of Christie's death in 1976 at age 85, she herself had become the most popular fiction writer in the world, and "Murder on the Orient Express" her...
All Stories
Mars attacks (again) in an enjoyable follow-up to “The War of the Worlds”
The Massacre of Mankind: A Sequel to "The War of the Worlds" by H.G. Wells
For the biggest Sherlock Holmes fans, the best account of Baker Street mania
In the 15 years since that glorious night I've gone on to review scholarship about the great detective and his creator, introduce a Penguin paperback of the four Sherlock Holmes...
A bibliophile’s holiday wish list is measured in volumes
Looking for holiday gifts? Tech gadgets are so ho-ho-hum, but no matter what startled visitors to my house say, you can never have too many books. Here, then, are a...
Book Review: Life among the original anti-consumerists in “Grant Hotel Abyss”
I steeled myself for a hard slog 鈥� these were, after all, German theorists 鈥� but almost immediately discovered that British journalist Stuart Jeffries could summarize complex arguments so clearly...
Recommendations for a different sort of beach read
One of the pleasures of summer holidays is choosing just the right books to pack along on the annual visit to the beach.