Twentieth Century Geopolitics and East-West Relations in the Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu
Rereading Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series the past year or so (this is a rewritten 2011 post from my own blog) has been a fascinating experience. Not always the reading. …
Successfully scratched itches, part 5: Comix
After well over forty years, I finally got around to reading one of the earliest serious histories of American comic books.
Let’s do a quick check of all the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies!
Yeah, okay, this is not quick at all, but let’s check it out anyway!
Hatcher’s Junk Drawer #20: Crossing Items Off the List
Yet another collection of bits and pieces that in and of themselves aren’t enough to rate a column, but nevertheless are worth a mention. Mostly things I’ve been meaning to get to for years now: New mysteries and old, a couple of oddball movies, and a TV show I’ve procrastinated on for about three decades.
Be he ever so divergent, there’s no place like Holmes
As I know we have some Holmes fans reading and writing posts here, I thought I’d post this week about two Holmes novels that bend the canon in different ways, …