By: Joshua Glenn

From THE DEVIL’S CHILDREN to THE PRINCE IN WAITING

By: Joshua Glenn

Roald Dahl’s FANTASTIC MR. FOX

By: Joshua Glenn

From HOMBRE and SOLARIS to JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH

By: Joshua Glenn

Roald Dahl’s JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH.

By: Joshua Glenn

The 12 books that inaugurated a great era in kids’ lit.

By: David Smay

Why are horror movies from 1960-63 so resistant to critical analysis?

By: Joshua Glenn

The New Gods are stronger, faster, and smarter than other generations.

By: James Parker

Director Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has many fine qualities, but they founder and die away to nothing on the eerie smoothness of his leading man’s chin. Johnny Depp may be beautiful, but […]

By: Tor Aarestad

We’re riding a swell of black-humored children’s literature, these days — the Lemony Snicket books are just a whitecap. However, as dark as these contemporary tales may be, none is so misanthropic as those of […]