Sex Differences Entertainingly Elucidated
As society gets ever stranger, take pride in learning about the true natures of men and women with an excellent book about violence. The 2015 book The Professor in the Cage by…
Stephen King Was Hypnotized
The question is, how do we reconcile Stephen King's unqualified brilliance in the realm of storytelling with his unqualified buffoonery in the political realm, and especially on Twitter? How can…
Fiction on the Edge
I’m not saying it’s your duty to get and review Roots Down to Hell. I’m just saying that by engaging with it, and leaving your honest impressions (preferably on Amazon), you are…
Jack London: A Commie but Not Woke
It’s bizarre, but true: Jack London, literature’s greatest proponent of hardcore survival-of-the-fittest philosophy, was a rabid socialist. What could bring about this anamoly? Was Jack bought off? Did he suffer…
Why ‘The Sun Also Rises’ Is Literary Reality TV, But Still Well Worth Reading
Modern readers sometimes don’t get this novel. I’ll try to explain what the buzz is about. Published in 1926, Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises has been hailed as a…
The Worst Movie Adaptation of All Time
Jim Thompson's 1958 novel The Getaway is vintage Thompson. Sam Peckinpah's early '70s adaptation of the novel is comically bad.
The Greatest Pulp Novel of All Time
Premise-wise, Dirty White Boys is the tale of a prison break led by Lamar Pye, a sort of modern-day Viking marauder, who has defied the prison’s white gang, the Dirty White Boys,…