The granddaddy of mangled geography is the 1959 Cary Grant thriller "North by Northwest." In the climactic sequence, Grant and Eva Marie Saint run out of a bad guy's mansion and about 100 yards later they are at
Encrypting your data is no longer the stuff of thriller novels or spy yarns. It is a fundamental security control that prevents unauthorized users from accessing your personal, corporate and privacy data whenever your Mac is not in use. Combining its benefits with a dead simple setup makes File...
In the story “The Garden Of Forking Paths” by Jorges Luis Borges takes the basic aspects of the spy thriller, plays with them to create a spy thriller that doesn’t follow the rules of the genre exactly. One example of this is in most spy thrillers, the protagonist is portrayed as ...
What is a Gothic novel? What type of novel is The Haunting of Hill House? What was the first true crime novel? What genre is the book Helter Skelter? What is classic detective fiction? What genre is the book ''The Shining''?
“These are just terrible”: Stephen King Not Liking the Book That Made Rosamund Pike’s The Wheel of Time So Loved is Upsetting For Many Fans Stephen King is one of the greatest names in the world of fiction, especially for his contribution to the horror genre. Being a remarkable ...
DUCKWORTH: No, no, no — different genre, Stephen. It was not a thriller. It was just, you know, three middle-aged women — actually, four, because there’s a little sister of one of these, uh, friends. DUBNER: Imagine how left out she felt. ...
The Shinning directed by Stanley Kubrick is considered by many to be a classic dramatic thriller. The movie released on May 23, 1980 and is based on the book by “the king of horror” himself Stephen King. The movie follows Jack Torrance, a struggling writer and his family as Jack becomes...
“All sex is a body trying / to tell a story with a hand / over its mouth,” James Allen Hall writes in “Erotic Crime Thriller.” That is the crux of the poem for me, and points to all the questions it poses. Like, what does sex mean, between any two bodies? When it’s il...
Father Elijah| Michael D. O’BrienThis book was a Modern Mrs. Darcy book club community pick, and another book in the same series,Strangers and Sojourners, is the January 2018 selection for the Well Read Mom. It is a thriller and apocalyptic novel that follows the pattern of Elijah and ...
I think this might be the best collection of picture books I’ve ever put on a Gift Guide: every single one is a book I would have happily bought for my own kids and never tired of reading (on repeat!). Many a night I lay in bed turning picture book titles over in my head to ...