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Year of the Month

Pierced Again and Again: Yukio Mishima and Confessions of a Mask

April 23, 2026

Eroticism and suffering entwine in Mishima's second novel.

Year of the Month

The Hero With A Thousand Faces

April 13, 2026

What if the world was something to learn from?

Intrusive Thoughts

Barthe DeClements and How It Sucks to Be a Kid

March 18, 2026

The author of a lot of books on the border of children's and Young Adult, just as many kids are.

Year of the Month

The Grave's Our Destination: Death and Belonging in Lonesome Dove

January 26, 2026

Why we keep coming back to Larry McMurtry's vision of the American West.

Year of the Month

"The Lottery," by Shirley Jackson

December 21, 2025

An elegantly crafted classic.

Disney Byways

The Art of Walt Disney

October 24, 2025

A history of the studio which even manages to acknowledge that Walt didn't really do the art for the most part.

Year of the Month

Working

October 15, 2025

What do you do for a living? And what does it mean to call a job that?

Attention Must Be Paid

Ira Levin

October 11, 2025

A great writer of horror who never failed to make readers laugh through their shudders.

Year of the Month

I Was Walking with a Ghost: The Seductive Power of Rebecca

September 25, 2025

"Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again."

Ugh, Atlas Shrugged

July 21, 2025

Strap yourself yourself in for the worst book I've ever read.

Disney Byways

Kingdom Keepers

July 18, 2025

Ridley Pearson writes a lengthy series of books that never quite come together as what they're intended to be.

Attention Must Be Paid

Sue Grafton

May 31, 2025

A woman who once cheerfully signed one of her books "To E. Rose Nelson, budding author," for which she has my undying devotion.