Lightning Strikes and Pen Strokes
/Veteran comics illustrator David Mazzucchelli takes center stage writing and drawing his first full-length graphic novel, Asterios Polyp, and Sharon Fulton takes a look at the result.
Read MoreKatrina Cries
/Sharon Fulton reviews Patricia Smith’s Blood Dazzler, a “resonant and devastating” examination of the Katrina disaster and the Bush administration’s failure to contain its fallout.
Read MoreFrame by Frame
/When life and art overlap, the results are always complex – and that’s certainly true of autobiographical graphic novelist Art Spiegelman, creator of Maus. Sharon Fulton takes a look at a tricked-out new reprint of his earliest work, Breakdowns.
Read MoreTomb Sweet Tomb
/Heaven help the author who becomes a cult figure in his own lifetime – Sharon Fulton reads the latest from fan favorite Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book, to see what all the fuss is about.
Read MoreThe Vampire Fan(g) Guide
/In honor of the spookie chills of autumn (when the Earth's average temperature plunges from 137 to a shivery 87), we re-present a classic OLM piece on vampire fiction for you to sink your teeth into!
Read More#8 Tailspin by Catherine Coulter
/Tailspin, by Catherine Coulter
Read MoreCheap Thrills from 9/11
/Likewise the characterization of birdsong here is a little irritating, since we don’t really know all that’s going on in avian communication either.
Read MoreFairies in New York and Werewolves in London
/Courtesy of novelist Martin Millar, there are super-cool werewolves in London, and glam-goth fairies in New York. Sharon Fulton is on their beat and reports back to us of the fantastic intersections of fairy and fairly common.
Read MoreThe Confraternity of Times Lost Regained Will Now Come to Order
/Tod Wodicka’s novel gamely blurs the distinction between real life and historical re-enactment; Sharon Fulton guides us through the medieval festival of All Shall Be Well; and All Shall be Well; and All Manner of Things Shall Be Well
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