The Notes Taken

Last winter I forayed into the works of arguably the greatest Japanese author of the 20th century, Yukio Mishima. I was not unscathed; you ...

(Vintage, 1999) "Every man's death is a standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the f...

(Vintage, 1995) The second volume of McCarthy's Border Trilogy concerns a different set of characters and takes place around ten years...

(Vintage, 1993) There's a metaphysic, an entire universe at the bottom of McCarthy's fiction; the hard part for me has been to di...

When it comes to books and movies I'm something of a horror buff, but I'm rather finicky about what precisely, to me, constitutes go...