A private dick irrigated with booze and soused by desire falls for a dangerous dame in Kevin Young's Black Maria, a noir in [...]

A president clamps down on civil liberties, enraging opponents who already despise him. Democrats genuinely fear for the country, particularly after the attorney [...]

We get most of our modern versions of fairy tales filtered through the homogenizing corporate screen of Disney. By the time these tales [...]

Last March the U.S. government released five British men from Guantánamo Bay after holding them for nearly three years. In August the men [...]

Constance Hester investigated guardianships and conservatorships for the Alameda County Superior Court in Oakland,Calif. for two decades. Since retiring in Albuquerque several years [...]

Among several epigraphs clustered near the front of Orhan Pamuk's new novel is the following ironic quote from Stendhal: "Politics in a literary [...]

An old-time kid's joke goes: "God is love. Love is blind. Ray Charles is blind. Therefore Ray Charles is God." Michael Crichton's polemic-as-novel, [...]

Despite the whimpered assertions of hanky-wringing nonny-nonnies, the Internet and e-zines have not spelled the death of the print zine. Each year, Jen [...]

Ever since he published The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Michael Chabon has exhibited a restlessness that would be irritating were not [...]

No one does literary horror like Straub. His latest novel is a sequel to last year's Lost Boy Lost Girl. This time out [...]