Articles of Note

Reading as addiction: Is Fifty Shades of Grey a gateway drug for literary fiction? Probably not. Yet we cling to the idea... more »

New Books

James Bond had much in common with his creator, Ian Fleming: Sex, drinking, smoking, cruelty, vanity, and a fondness for Jamaica... more »

Essays & Opinions

On the page and in life, we are primed for beginnings. Endings are problematic, last impressions being so much more fraught than first... more »