It’s become widely accepted that a movie adapting a novel should use its source as a guide rather than a strict…
A few years ago, I wrote an essay bemoaning the way Hollywood explores the subject of prejudice. Too often, I…
For his first novel, President Bill Clinton, along with fiction factory James Patterson, has written a trashy,…
Stephen King’s The Outsider is in many ways a throwback novel, a creature feature that seems ripped from his ’80s…
A main character in The Hunger Games is named Peeta. In The Starving Games, an alleged parody of the series, the…
The publication of Gone Girl sparked something of an arms race within literary thrillers, a long-dominant genre that…
Larry Norman was perhaps the most complex figure in 20th-century American music. He was a mess of contradictions, a…
Brian Garfield’s 1972 book Death Wish was written as a challenge to audiences. The impulse behind its premise is…
When Die Hard was released in 1988, it was a rebuke to the kind of action film Hollywood was churning out to…
Shortly after the election, there was a minor debate in literary circles about which classic dystopian novel better…
Heather, The Totality is ruined by its ending. Weiner makes it clear that Bobby is out to harm Heather, whether…