Have you ever revisited a classic from your childhood only to find a whole pile of weird subtext you’ve never noticed before? Andrew’s never read Mary Poppins, but all...

Nothing screams New Year’s like a guy sitting in his study, missing his beloved, wishing an obnoxious, repetitive bird would just leave him the heck alone. Therefore it’s only...

‘Tis the season to do seasonally-themed episodes, and so Andrew read Charles Dickens’A Christmas Carol, the short story that has been so widely adapted that you know it front-to-back...

What do you do when your meth-cooking father goes missing in the Missouri Ozarks? Ask your relatives? Go to the cops? Dig for evidence yourself? These are the options...

Sometimes an author’s personality (or legend, even) grows to the point that it’s just as interesting as the work they produced. This is certainly true in the case of...

In 1893, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “killed” Sherlock Holmes. Eight years later, the popular detective returned inThe Hound of the Baskervilles, much to the delight of Doyle’s mother. Why...

Andrew and Craig both come at P.F. Kluge’s Eddie and the Cruisers from a unique perspective: Kluge was (and is) writer-in-residence at Kenyon College (their alma mater). They’ve both had him in...

No plot, no characters, no setting. Samuel Beckett’sThe Unnamablesounds like it’s about nothing, but it’s more than just theSeinfeldof novels – or so Craig tries to convince Andrew.Beckett, a...

Another Hunger Games movie is right around the corner, but you just can’t wait. You need to read a heartwarming tale about tweens and teens who are all dropped...