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...

Billed as “The Greatest War Novel of All Time” on many a book jacket, All Quiet on the Western Front chronicles one soldier’s harrowing experience in World War I....

How would you and your family react if you awoke one morning changed into a huge bug? In our kafkaesque discussion of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis, Craig and Andrew talk...

What book could possible be more overdue for a read than Beowulf, one of the oldest extant works of Anglo-Saxon literature? Join us as we revel in Beowulf’s heroic...

Here on Overdue, it’s definitely not going to be multi-layered critiques of religion and missives on love and cholera every week. Take this book as a case in point—Dan...

When first performed on Broadway in 1964, Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice frustrated and discomfited audiences with its metaphysical critiques on faith and religion. It is no less opaque today...

Florentino Ariza, the ostensible protagonist of Gabriel García Márquez’ Love in the Time of Cholera, has had 622 distinct sexual partners in the 51 years, nine months, and four...

Did you pay attention in ninth grade English? Craig did, sort of. This week he reads – or rereads, he’s not sure – John Steinbeck’s classic tale of Depression-era...