LUCKY THE TOURIST

It would be easy to look at the recent Doctor Who novelization City of Death and ask, “What’s the point?” The original televised version from 1979 is one of the most well realized and highly regarded of the original twenty-five year run of the of the...

The Prophets of Eternal Fjord is a long book. It is a long grim book. It tells the story of a seminary student in 18th century Copenhagen who eventually becomes a missionary to Greenland. Copenhagen in the seventeen hundreds is a dirty, crowded city...

Salman Rushdie is one of our most agile and original fantasists. In a time when the popular imagination seems evermore stranded in ruts dug by each medium’s greatest successes Rushdie continues his pattern of building his fiction from historical influences...

 World War II melodrama The Race for Paris works as a series of emotionally charged snapshots of the culture of journalism at a moment when truly mass media was being born. At its best the book moves at an exciting pace and weaves battlefield calamities...