Blogs about Fiction

Crying piteously in the back of a taxicab that is ferrying me, with the discrete resoluteness of death’s own boatman, across expressways wet with melting snow. A chunk of ice breaks off a sign above …

Henry James was blathering on, about what exactly Addison had little or no idea. Not for the first time in his life he thought, yes, this was life, people blathering, because blather they must, even …

There are only eight episodes of the BBC Ghost Story for Christmas, produced between 1971 and 1978. That’s not enough. Here are some suggestions for where to go next. First, let’s address a technicality: the …