Lemurian Congress

Robert Coover had dabbled with "trapped in a genre" stories before, but "Ghost Town" (1998) was the first time he exten...

If "Briar Rose" (1996) appeared in a collection of short stories, I would probably appreciate it more. There is something about a...

Robert Coover's novels tend to come in one of two formats: either they're teeny-tiny books with huge text and wide margins (glorifi...

"Pinocchio in Venice" (1991) was the first Robert Coover novel I read. Having just finished it now for the third time -- and in t...

I escorted my parents to see Greg Allman at the Kitchener Blues Festival on Thursday. I have almost no recollection of Allman from my youth...

For the past six weeks or so I have been engaged in a Cooverthon...that is, I've been re-reading all of Robert Coover's books* in ...

I've spent over a month reading Thomas Pynchon's massive novel " Against the Day ." I have lugged it from home, to work, t...

At the end of the 1948 movie " The Snake Pit ," our newly-sane heroine tells her heroic doctor that she knows she has recovered he...

The best science fiction films show us the world as it may someday be: the boinking of "A Clockwork Orange," the tasty vittles of ...

Italy is the strangest movie I have ever seen.

The rumours are true: Mike Meyers can do no wrong! This is not because he hasn't tried. Before he starts working on any movie he wonders...

The New Yorker film reviewer of 1930 ("J.C.M."), after pooh-pooing the trend toward larger-format films (so-called "three-dim...

I'm re-reading " Aztec ," the Gary Jennings book that I first read many years ago, and I have a few things to add to my previo...

I had extremely low expectations of " Survivors ," mainly because it was created by Terry Nation. I associate Nation with some of ...

What if you create a monster that is too scary to even film? If you create this monster from the mind of your wickedness and also the wicked...

In January I read an extremely positive review of Elizabeth Bowen's short fiction in a 1930s New Yorker magazine. Unable to find any of ...

It should not surprise you that, when I accidentally touched the grease of a Hollywood Scriptwriter's typewriter, I began to transform i...

I have long been enchanted by this cover of "Across the Universe." It is somehow -- inexplicably -- both heart-wrenchingly beautif...

I warned them! Didn't I tell the improbable Mexican aristocrats that they must not rise above their social station lest they suffer the ...

The New Yorker panned this book, but it sounded so interesting that I couldn't resist finding a copy: "God's Country: A Short H...