• Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Robinson Crusoe 4. Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift A wonderful satire that still works for all ages, despite the savagery of Swift's vision. • Robert McCrum's 100 best novels: Gulliver's Travels 5. Tom Jones Henry Fielding The adventures of a h...
The Greatest Literature of All Time. Lists and critiques of the greatest literature, novels, stories, plays, crime, science fiction and more.
2009Just as Breaking Bad gave 21st Century audiences a small-screen protagonist who descends ever-deeper into villainy while ascending to greater heights in the criminal underworld, Jacques Audiard's slow-burning French crime movie follows a similarly Heisenbergian trajectory. Tahar Rahim's Malik El-...
Pelecanos might be better known for his involvement with The Wire, but it’s his hard-boiled crime novels that purists return to. The mesmeric Dimitri Karras is first introduced in King Suckerman, the second book in his DC Quartet, and he quickly becomes the pivotal figure in Pelecanos’...
(and sexual preferences) emerge in what amounts to an indie cabaret show — a recordaboutlove songs, as he’s said — over the course of nearly 70 tunes. Merritt and his band set those songs to country swing, jazz, post-grunge rock, Irish folk songs, and show-tune theatrics, making...
1. Lord Dunsany Lord Dunsany (July 24, 1878 - October 25, 1957) was an Irish writer and dramatist. His full name was Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany. Edward Plunkett was born on July 24, 1878 to John William Plunkett, 17th Baron Dunsany (1853 - 1899) and his ...
The theme for the TV miniseries,Harry’s Game, is a song that was specially commissioned from the Irish band, Clannad. They’re known for mixing folk and traditional Irish styles, with genres as diverse as smooth jazz andGregorian chant. ...
(to accuse formally of a crime) 4. The soldiers charged their guns and prepared to fire. (to load) 5. He is always charged with strength and power. (to take in the correct amount of electricity/power) 6. “We had to get rid of him in order to fulfill our just aspirations.” (...
The Greatest Literature of All Time. Lists and critiques of the greatest literature, novels, stories, plays, crime, science fiction and more.
Pelecanos might be better known for his involvement with The Wire, but it’s his hard-boiled crime novels that purists return to. The mesmeric Dimitri Karras is first introduced in King Suckerman, the second book in his DC Quartet, and he quickly becomes the pivotal figure in Pelecanos’...