C.J. Sansom's Winter in Madrid and the literary lure of the "Good Fight"

Jack London's "To Build a Fire"

Herman Melville's "Bartleby the Scrivener" and the world of work

Hollywood's CIA Fantasies and "The Good Shepherd"

Postapocalypse now: Cormac McCarthy's "The Road"

Reconsidering "On the Waterfront"

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Doris Lessing

Ernest Hemingway & Tim O'Brien

Ursula K. Le Guin

Edith Wharton

Joseph Conrad

Turgenev and "First Love"