We’ve all used the term male gaze to talk about a piece of media with a male at the helm, usually pointing out ways it fell ...

Nothing grabs a reader’s attention faster than an embarrassing personal anecdote, so here’s mine: In the spring of 2018, I ...

Under normal circumstances (say at a watering hole sipping something gin-forward, or in a bookshop café petting the reigning ...

I read all types of thrillers, but the ones that tend to lure me in the most usually have a gothic layer. It’s no surprise, ...

I’ve never been a violent person, except perhaps in my nearly violent love of literature.  In fact, I’m a practicing Buddhist ...

The night when I learned that I wasn’t a tough guy, I was in my early twenties, at a Motörhead show.  This was in New York ...

As someone who mostly reads novels by female authors (a group Nathaniel Hawthorne once dismissed as “that damned mob of ...

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Elizabeth Hand, Unspeakable Things (Little ...

I have an Edgar Allan Poe-themed backpack that I bought at a bookstore and whenever I am wearing it, folks stop me to talk ...

You’ll often find me in my pajamas, a mug of lukewarm coffee in one hand and a book about Dom Perignon and Dior in the other.

Look, let’s get right down to it: horror movies scare me. They always have, since my initial viewing of Poltergeist in 1982 ...

“El-Hai digs into a case involving an Apache shaman and the author of Perry Mason in this fascinating true crime account. He ...