The Moralist in Harlequin’s Costume
by There is a certain shock of reading A Clockwork Orange, and shock was certainly what Anthony Burgess intended. Yet …
Novelists
The Hobbit and the Making of Middle-earth
That The Hobbit is a childhood favorite of many readers reminds us that Tolkien’s slim 1937 novel remains, for …
The Creature We Made
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein has never quite escaped the reputation of being more referenced than read. What comes to us …