You’ve driven all day. You’re tired. Your muscles are stiff and tight from sitting too long. You can’t wait to relax. Unwind.

People who read are intelligent, and it is my firm view that when we read a novel, the vast majority of us want more than ...

Barry Jenkins’s If Beale Street Could Talk is a gorgeous, devastating watercolor of a film, so simultaneously ethereal and ...

Another week, another batch of books for your TBR pile. Happy reading, folks. * Michael Connelly, The Hollow (Little Brown) ...

My writing career has been like a time-travel cruise studded with real-life celebrities. In my Sano Ichiro samurai detective ...

Barbara Stanwyck pauses at the top of the staircase in Double Indemnity. The camera lingers on the anklet around her ankle.

As a Gen Xer growing up in the boring suburban Midwest, boomers repeated certain adages meant to guide me into adulthood: ...

Here are five psychological thrillers out this month, all excellent, all different, and all bound to please. Many of the following books are also very much gothic, part and parcel of the ...

On a winter evening some years ago, in a tiny cottage in North Wales, a friend of a friend said something to me that has ...

I don’t like folk horror. I don’t like it! When I turn on a horror movie, I would prefer it not be about how rural townsfolk ...

Ahhhhh, the holidays. That wonderful time of year when it’s twelve degrees outside, you’re forced to see all those relatives ...

Sen tting is a central element to any novel, though within the horror genre, it can also have the wonderfully eerie ability ...