THE BEACH is one of my favorite all-time books; certainly, I would place it in my ever-rotating top five, along with stalwarts AMERICAN PSYCHO and BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY. Alex Garlands novel captured for me […]

I came into RED DRAGON with pretty solid expectations; in preparation, I recently re-read Thomas Harris’s book (his best work, and easily the best of the Hannibal Lecter trilogy. See sidebar) although I probably […]