Hellhound on His Trail, by Hampton Sides
October 26, 2011 10:36 amA gripping biography of James Earl Ray, the assassin of Martin Luther King. The book examines the weeks leading up... View Article
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle, by Shirley Jackson
October 19, 2011 10:15 amAnother of Jackson’s excellent, subdued supernatural New England novels (following The Haunting of Hill House). This one focuses on two... View Article
Essex County, Vols. 1-2, by Jeff Lemire
October 12, 2011 10:13 amThese are the first books—Tales from the Farm and Ghost Stories—from the Essex County trilogy of stories about Canada. I... View Article
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, by Philip K. Dick
October 5, 2011 10:16 amAnother hallucinatory SF story by Dick. In this one, the heads of two companies compete to dominate the illegal drug... View Article
Life With Mr. Dangerous, by Paul Hornschemeier & Mister Wonderful, by Dan Clowes
September 28, 2011 10:10 amI wouldn’t normally pair books, but I read these on consecutive days and was struck by their similarities (not just... View Article
Jessica Farm, Vol. 1, by Josh Simmons
September 21, 2011 9:49 amThe first installment of a lifelong project from one of the leading horror comics creators working today. Simmons creates 1... View Article
American Recordings, by Tony Tost
September 14, 2011 10:13 amAnother in the generally excellent 33 1/3 series of books on classic records. Poet/American mythos scholar Tony Tost surveys the... View Article
The Impossible, by Cole Louison
September 7, 2011 10:59 amDisclosure: the author has been my friend since college, a decade-plus ago. Still: this is a terrific book. I’m not... View Article
The Man in the High Castle, by Philip K Dick
August 31, 2011 10:51 amA terrific work of alternate history, taking place in a 1962 where the Axis won World War 2 and partitioned... View Article
Miss Lonelyhearts/The Day of the Locust, by Nathanael West
August 24, 2011 10:27 amA pair of dark 1930s novels, one focused on New York seemingly abandoned by God, the other on Los Angeles... View Article