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Review: Matthew Dunn’s Spycatcher

Art Taylor / September 3, 2011

Former MI6 agent Matthew Dunn‘s debut spy thriller, Spycatcher, gets off to a rough start both in its style (clumsy […]

Laura Ellen Scott, an occasional contributor to Art & Literature, takes a look at Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and The

I can’t help but wonder what Richard North Patterson thought as he watched the breaking news about Osama bin Laden’s

South Korean novelist Kyung-sook Shin‘s Please Look After Mom — her first novel to be translated and published in English — has

The Spring 2011 issue of Mystery Scene features my essay on novelist Louis Bayard: partly a review of his new book The School of

Art Taylor / March 4, 2011

It might be easy to find fault with P.G. Sturges’ debut book, the comic crime novel Shortcut Man. I’ve seen

Art Taylor / February 9, 2011

With the start of a new semester at Mason, plus a short-term class I’m teaching at the Osher Lifelong Learning

Art Taylor / January 17, 2011

Time Magazine called last year’s debut Best European Fiction anthology “an exhilarating read” and looked forward to more editions in

Art Taylor / January 10, 2011

Laura Ellen Scott last appeared on this site interviewing thriller writer Sophie Hannah. Here, she reviews the debut novel by

Art Taylor / January 4, 2011

I was pleased to be asked to contribute a couple of suggestions to AARP’s end-of-year round-up of 2010 books. The

Art Taylor / December 30, 2010

Apart from Metro itself, one of my favorite magazines is undoubtedly The Oxford American — and the highpoint of the

Art Taylor / December 15, 2010

Coincidentally, Jeffery Deaver’s new thriller, Edge, is set in two places I call home. The novel’s opening section — a