7 Billion Needles, Vols. 1-2

First published in 1950, Hal Clement’s Needle was a unique mixture of hard science fiction and police procedural. The story…

Superman vs. Muhammad Ali

  I was six in 1978, the year DC Comics first published Superman vs. Muhammad Ali, so I can’t claim…

Short Cuts and Genkaku Picasso

Short Cuts has the unique distinction of being one of the first manga I ever loathed. In fairness to Usamaru…

Summer, Fireworks, and My Corpse

At some point in your travels through high school English, a teacher probably made you read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,”…