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10 Great Works of Fiction for Philosophers
Although he denied his affiliation with the movement, critics are generally inclined to say that Albert Camus was an existentialist. Born 100 years ago today, the author is responsible for Nobel...
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50 Essential Mystery Novels That Everyone Should Read
In these weeks of midwinter, there’s nothing more satisfying than curling up by the fire with a good novel — and in particular a good mystery novel, because they somehow seem to keep you the warmest....
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50 Incredible Novels Under 200 Pages
Springtime can make even the most devoted of readers a little bit antsy. After all, there are flowers to smell, puddles to jump in, fresh love to kindle. You still want to have a novel in your pocket —...
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The Many Literary Adaptations of Orson Welles
It’s notable that in My Lunches With Orson — the collection of taped conversations between Orson Welles and Henry Jaglom in the last years of the Citizen Kane director’s life — Welles mentions writers...
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50 Great Dark Books for the Dark Days of Winter
We’ve reached the time of year when the days seem impossibly short and the nights never ending. Good if you’re a vampire or like to go to sleep early, less exciting for the rest of us. So what is one...
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50 Great Novels About Madness
Not so much into March Madness? Well, perhaps you should look at it another way. March is the perfect month for reading books about madness — it is a transitional time, after all, possessed of both...
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How Orson Welles Almost Made His Film Debut With an Innovative ‘Heart of...
Today marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Orson Welles, one of the cinema’s foremost artists — and one of its greatest tragedies, personifying as he does the industry’s predilection for chewing...
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Christian Kracht’s ‘Imperium’ is a Melvillean Masterpiece of the South Seas
Long of toenail and hair and beard, the eccentric August Engelhardt shunned clothing and subsisted entirely on coconuts; he was, in other words, a nudist and cocovore. He was also a subject of the...
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The Best Books We Were Assigned in High School
Of all the books you were assigned in high school, which was the best? That’s the question I wanted our staff to answer. It’s fun — yet maybe a little disconcerting — to travel back to that formative...
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30 of the Scariest Moments From Western Literature
Here are 30 of the scariest moments I know of from the ever- controversial “canon” of Western literature — a surely fraught construction that should be perpetually revised, placed in check, and, in...
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