Clive James has been trying to read a Henry James novel.
Crime Fiction and Literature
Category: Ideas
An act of infinite cruelty
Sometimes it feels as if the murder victim has been inserted into a book as a prop, to make the story happen for other people.
A Thought to Live By
From The School of Life
MURDER MYSTERIES AND PHILOSOPHY
Murder mysteries can be about death and the profound mystery of life itself.
Literary Murder Mystery
What does it mean to say a mystery novel is literary?
Einstein and Mystery
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."
Greek Tragedy and Freud: Auden on the Detective Story
For W. H. Auden detective fiction embodied a timeless idea, which appears in Classical, Christian and Freudian thought.
JOANNA BAKER 