Dune, Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 novel, is both a science fiction classic and, based on empirical evidence, one of the most difficult works of fiction to film. This based on the many (many) unsuccessful attempts, some of them by so promising and with results so bad, it has become the stuff of legend. Herbert’s novel is set 21,000 years in the future and is breathtaking in scope and sheer brazen storytelling. It was also the […]
In a less than celebratory moment in America, Colson Whitehead (The Intuitionist, Sag Harbor) has won the National Book Award for his 2016 novel, The Underground Railroad which, in its announcement, the New York Times called “a hallucinatory novel about the horrors of American slavery and the sinister permutations of racism.” From the Times: The novel, which became a best-seller and was selected for Oprah Winfrey’s book club, follows a young slave named Cora who […]
Back in August, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle started doing somersaults in his grave at the news that his most beloved creation was going to be given a comedic treatment in a new Sony Pictures comedy starring Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly that will be called Holmes & Watson. It has just been announced that the cast for the venture is now complete. From Deadline Hollywood: Rob Brydon, Kelly Macdonald, and Rebecca Hall are set […]
That last one was a very difficult week. One many of us would forget, if we could. The results of the U.S. presidential election was enough to make most of the free world reel. And then, just when we though things couldn’t get any worse, we lost the crack where the light got in. Amid the wash of words written since iconic singer/songwriter Leonard Cohen died on November 10th at the age of 82, were […]
When researcher Jawad Khattib gasps his last breath on the Massachusetts General Hospital floor, the Department of Homeland Security wants answers — especially after a preliminary autopsy suggests he died of radiation poisoning. What exactly was Khattib working on? And who was he working for? DHS Agent Lee Jansen is rushed to Boston and paired with expert toxicologist Dr. Emma Hess to crack the case. All evidence points to the creation of a dirty bomb, […]
And speaking of the New York Times (which we were doing a few days ago here), Arthur O. Sulzberger Jr., publisher, and Dean Baquet, executive editor, have asked for patience from their readers following the recent U.S. election. From Deadline Hollywood: Fearing a backlash from angry subscribers in the wake of the election, mainstream media outlets are imploring their paying customers to keep the faith. The moves, mostly in the form of pundits committing public […]
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. He’s the youngest child of author Robert Terrall [1914-2009], who—under the pseudonym Robert Kyle—penned a series of novels featuring Manhattan private eye Ben Gates, as well as other crime-fiction works.) Sin Soracco is a unique voice among crime […]
On a day when the sky feels like it’s falling in any case, this news from the world of print journalism seems less chilling than it might have been at other times. From Deadline Hollywood: As print advertising revenues continue to fall off the cliff, reviews and features related to film, theater and the rest of the arts are being cut at New York’s two prominent broadsheets, the New York Times and the Wall Street […]
A few years ago, there were an awful lot of wives and daughters in book titles. These days, as most everyone has observed, we’ve been overrun by girls. From The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in 2005 to Gone Girl in 2012 to Carl Hiassen’s Razor Girl this year, it’s a trend you’d figure would be finished, that actually shows no sign of being done. At FiveThirtyEight, Emily St. John Mandel looks at what it […]
(Editor’s note: This review comes from Ben Terrall, a freelance writer based in San Francisco, California, whose work has appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Bay View, In These Times, CounterPunch, and Noir City. He’s the youngest child of author Robert Terrall [1914-2009], who—under the pseudonym Robert Kyle—penned a series of novels featuring Manhattan private detective Ben Gates, as well as other crime-fiction works.) John Goins’ first novel, A Portrait in the […]
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