Max Brooks’ World War Z, soon to be a not-awesome-looking motion picture, takes an interesting approach to the zombie apocalypse story: it’s told through interviews with multiple survivors of...

Whether or not you’ve read The Elements of Style, the writing rules and techniques you learned in grade school likely came from Strunk and White’s “little book.” Craig had...

When you talk about a witch-hunt, you aren’t normally referring to sane, procedural, and fair trials. You’re talking about a fear-driven investigation driven by suspicions rather than facts, where...

Ernest J. Gaines’ Pulitzer-nominated novel A Lesson Before Dying takes place in 1940s Jim Crow Louisiana, where a black schoolteacher is asked to visit a young man on death...

Breaking a three-show “books from circa 1900” streak, Andrew tackles Jeffrey Eugenides’ Pulitzer Prize winning Middlesex, a tale of love, incest, time-jumping, emigration, and hermaphroditism. Like the book itself,...

H. G. Wells’ classic “scientific romance” The War of the Worlds is perhaps the earliest known example of Martian invasion fiction. Of course, it’s more than just early science...

You’ve probably seen the movie, but have you read the book? L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz certainly follows the same basic pattern as the (much later)...

What makes a good ghost story? If you said creepy children, gothic architecture, and unreliable narrators, then Henry James has you covered The Turn of the Screw. This week...

Good science fiction uses fantastical characters, locations, and technology to comment intelligently on problems that we face in the real world, but the best science fiction can also do...