City on Fire by Don Winslow
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Don Winslow’s new novel features gang warfare in an endless Rhode Island winter.
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Bradbury Beyond Apollo by Jonathan Eller
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Biographer Johnathan Eller concludes his massive biography of science fiction legend Ray Bradbury.
Read MoreBroken by Don Winslow
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The latest from the great novelist Don Winslow is a collection of short stories in a wonderfully different register.
Read MoreMovie Review: The Invisible Man
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Leigh Wannell’s new horror movie takes a creep modern approach to the classic Hollywood story.
Read MoreChild's Play, directed by Lars Klevberg
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2019’s Child’s Play remake navigates the traps of postmodern horror, and provides some interesting commentary on our political-digital moment.
Read MoreWhite by Bret Easton Ellis
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If Ellis is obsessed with anything as a craftsman, it’s voice.
Read MoreThe Border by Don Winslow
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The Border feels like it might be too quick on the trigger in its portrait of the present day, however riveting that portrait may be.
Read MoreThe Girl in the Spider’s Web
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Alvarez seems to have cracked the code for how to translate these novels to the screen.
Read MoreThe End of the End of the Earth: Essays by Jonathan Franzen
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Communicates a compelling voice from a speaker who’s well-intentioned, well-studied and considerate, but hopelessly aloof.
Read MoreTrue Indie by Don Coscarelli
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A memoir by a celebrated filmmaker that serves more as a crash course in independent film.
Read MoreTruth or Dare
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The latest release from Blumhouse Productions is a friendly horror movie with a cast of beautiful young people.
Read MoreA Quiet Place, directed by John Krasinski
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A Quiet Place is yet another step toward dignifying a genre whose potential for great storytelling has been ignored, squandered, and stands ripe for fulfillment.
Read MoreDeath Wish, directed by Eli Roth
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Death Wish is a movie that, though crafted as escapist entertainment, only makes us more conscious of the real world.
Read MoreGetting Off: One Woman's Journey Through Sex and Porn Addiction by Erica Garza
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Erica Garza’s new memoir about sex and porn addiction, Getting Off, is candid, quick, and as structurally clever, as commercially savvy, as it is intimate and sincere. It isn’t an addiction memoir that tries to shock, or to sustain the reader’s interest with long gruesome episodes of lowpoints or shady dealings or binges.
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