Reading a novel is kind of a strange experience: there are voices in your head telling you a story, often pretending you’re there in the room with them—or, even stranger, pretending that you are inside their minds. Books in the form of a diary are much less strange to contemplate: it’s perfectly reasonable to imagine you’ve picked […]
These days it’s generally accepted that if you create a popular character or series of novels, someone will helpfully step in to write more of them for you after you die. Robert Ludlum only wrote three Bourne novels in his lifetime, but Eric Van Lustbader has written nine more, with the tenth on the way. No […]
We love summer movies (air conditioning was made for darkened movie theaters), but we especially love summer movies when they bring our favorite books to life. Here are the adaptations we can’t wait to watch this summer.