Try A Little Tenderness: The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
The title of Patricia Cornwell’s new novel, The Scarpetta Factor, is rather telling, and highlights the direction its author has …
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Blogger Candidata: The Hillary Effect by Taylor Marsh
Taylor Marsh is the “de facto leader” of “legions of Hillary Clinton fans” according to the Washington Post, and The …
The Right Side of the Tracks: Railways in Classic Detective Fiction
Railways pervade the classic whodunnit. They bring detectives to the crime scene take criminals away from it, provide alibis and …
Gloriously Grotty: Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, live streamed from Glyndebourne
We’re still at the point where talking about live broadcasts from venues like La Scala, Glyndebourne and the National Theatre …
The Czech Gambit: Umberto Eco’s The Prague Cemetery
It’s his historiography I have a problem with. A.S. Byatt, who knows whereof she speaks when it comes to the …
Who Didn’t It: Guilt and Innocence in Golden Age Detective Fiction
The whodunnit is, amongst other things, a novel about crime, which ranges the forces of law and justice against those …
Medieval Crimes: Detective Fiction and History
Ellis Peters’ series of novels about the sleuthing monk Brother Cadfael began with A Morbid Taste For Bones in 1977. …
College Football: Ohio State vs University of Central Florida
Welcome to Game of the Week. With our abiding interest in the intersection of culture and academe, and the fact …
So Pure and Rational An Attachment: Women, Sex and the Duchess of Malfi on the Victorian Stage
The new issue of Victorian Network just came out, and it includes an article I wrote on the performance of …
Sherlock: The Reichenbach Fall
Doing the Reichenbach Falls as part of the Sherlock series? I love it. The idea is so self-indulgent, such a …
