Book Reviews

These mealtime debates about the Tichborne trial, while fun to follow, lack the preternatural precision of the dialogue in Smith’s more contemporary novels — she is working with the past,...

Thomas Wolfe famously titled one of his novels You Can't Go Home Again. It's something to keep in mind when reading Gabriella Burnham's Wait, in which a mother and daughter...

Star Wars: The Acolyte premieres on Disney+ on June 4, and the first reactions from critics have started finding their way online (via SFFGazette.com).  These are made up of a...

Afflicted with painful endometriosis, which doctors infuriatingly used to call “the career women’s disease” — Franklin recounts Jones bleeding profusely in her assistant’s cubicle, then going back to her desk...

The “V/H/S” franchise was already on death’s door by the time Shudder resurrected it as an annual streaming event in 2021. So it would be inaccurate to blame the warmed-over...

John CarpenterAnthology II (Movie Themes 1976-1988)5/5 stars With his new release, horror icon John Carpenter proves that Taylor Swift isn’t the only legend who can re-record material and breathe new...

CHAIN-GANG ALL-STARS, by Nana Kwame Adjei-BrenyahThis was one of the Book Review’s 10 best books of 2023.Should I be having this much fun? This is one queasy testament to Nana...

Stephen King's new book, You Like It Darker, has proven to be a smash hit in only a matter of days.The critically acclaimed author is known for novels such as...

When Elizabeth, a once close friend of Dexter’s from college, bumps into him at the airport, where she is meeting her younger sister, Vicki, both of them aimless and given...

Given the tenderness Garner lavishes on shelf-stable powdered cheese, it is no surprise that he was a chubby boy. His descriptions of his body constitute some of the sweetest and...