A competent retelling of an extraordinary life Since his death almost 100 years ago, Jack London’s legendary life has inspired many bio...

The Original CSI Little needs to be said of the profound influence that Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes has had on detective f...

A must-read American classic Any top ten list of American novels should include Upton Sinclair’s masterpiece, both for its literary qua...

A sequel that improves upon its predecessor The Deluge (also known by its Polish title, Potop ) is the second novel in “The Trilogy” b...

Not Zola’s best, but still a good read The eleventh novel in the Rougon-Macquart series, this book picks up where the last installment ...

The word “adequate” comes to mind When Jack London was a teenager, he hooked up with a gang of sailors who pirated oysters from the bed...

“It was tediousness made tangible . . .” Carol Milford graduates from a small St. Paul college with idealistic notions of taking some b...