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To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is one of the most perfect American novels in my opinion. However, I did not hold this opinion back in school when I had various portions of it assigned and some times reassigned in middle school and high school. (Odd as it is, I don't think we were ever even asked...

The radio program Fresh Air (hosted by Terry Gross of WHYY and aired on National Public Radio stations) featured a great interview with Blade Runner director Ridley Scott last month (Dec. 2007). You can search the programs archives at http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgld=13 to hear...

By CHARLES McGRATH ALL his life the science fiction writer Philip K. *** yearned for what he called the mainstream. He wanted to be a serious literary writer, not a sci-fi hack whose audience consisted, he once said, of “trolls and wackos.” But Mr. ***, who popped as many as 1,000 amphetamine pills a...