For the past dozen years crime fiction has been attracting a growing audience. Readers get a two for one in the best of the...

Colin Cotterill has a crime fiction series set in Laos. I can recommend his Disco for the Departed. The main continuing characters in...

The Grove Press edition of Spirit House will be released early summer 2008. Here’s a preview of the cover of the Grove edition: If you...

Two novels in the Vincent Calvino series are now available in mass paperback editions. The books are priced at $9.95 plus shipping. You...

It is common to see racially mixed couples in shopping malls, restaurants and discos in Bangkok and in other cities in Thailand. The...

The best writing is fueled by passion. In the case of Raymond Chandler, there is a strong case that his heart-felt passion for his wife...

Marcel Proust wrote about memory in Swann’s Way. Like Turner’s famous paintings of sunsets, Proust took readers inward to cull,...

In pursuit of one's own shadow By Zinovy Zinik Zinovy Zinik is a novelist who fled the Soviet Union in the 1970s and ended up living in...

Neurology is closing in on answers to this ancient question. Novelists are in the business of inventing, refining and explaining the...

There is a gurgling sound coming from below. This is the sound of discontent being registered about the power and influence of the rich...

My publishers Grove/Atlantic have come up with the jacket cover design for hardback edition of The Risk of Infidelity Index The subtitle...

The first lesson in fictional story devices is discovered when a student opens her first history textbook. Only they aren’t told the...

The IHT ran a profile on John Burdett: John Burdett: Detective writer at work in a seedy Bangkok district Burdett is the author of best...

But where will it end? Japanese detective story author Edogawa Rampo was known, for among other things, his signature glasses. He died...

Every month someone will write or phone and ask for information about a worthy cause that could use money for something other than SUVs,...

Sunday night I lost a long time friend. He died of a heart attack. I just saw Max last Thursday at lunchtime. He’d lost a lot of weight...

I finished going through editorial changes to the 5th novel in the Vincent Calvino series: The Big Weird. BookSiam originally published...

Monks were shot and killed in Rangoon. Crackdown troops have been called into the capital from the provinces. As the Blues song says,...

Joseph Epstein is one of America’s foremost social and literary critics. The rare breed of thinker who draws lessons from the...

Cynthia Ozick’s The Din in the Head discussed in the Joseph Epstein article should spark some cultural soul searching in other...