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While it's a significant step down from the 80 books I read last year , I'm fairly proud of this year's list. For my best of l...

It's that time again. The Best Of Lists, which dominate your social media page with hyperbole and self-congratulation. However, al...

Several weeks ago, I was in a movie theater awaiting a screening of Brad Pitt's   Fury  when I saw a trailer for   The Interview.   The ...

My review of the previous episode: The Labours of Hercules I promised myself that I wouldn’t start this review with a personal anecdote. ...

This is an older post - for the most up to date news, check here. 2015 will get off to a great start with the U.K. premiere of a secon...

If I'm still writing at the age of 90, I will die happy. I hope P.D. James did, anyway. One thing is for certain: no one could have pr...

For those of you (are there any of you?) who only follow me here at Longish, you might be interested in some of my other doings about the ...

The great G.K. Chesterton was a stalwart defender of pulp fiction, but he also dismissively spoke of Edgar Allan Poe as a really  “morbid...