This month, I visited the offices of The Critic for our summer party. Sat outside the office, waiting for someone to let me in, I looked up and saw police officers striding towards me.With faultless professionalism, they explained that they had had r...
Some books are most profitably read backward, or at least with their endings in mind. Once you’ve read an Agatha Christie novel, you derive a new enjoyment from finding and parsing the clues and hints she leaves throughout the book that point to the ...