James Woods gives Harold Bloom a real work-over.

Pat Hayes has a great piece on Barbara Forrest, the woman who slew the vaunted ID dragon at Dover.

The Day Without Yesterday is now officially available at NRO’s Bookservice.

Book Club Dept. I’ve been on a science fiction binge since Boskone in February. After meeting Allan Steele there I ran out and bought Coyote, which was very enjoyable. I also finally got to Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass, Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin and (with a pause to savor Alice Munro’s latest collection of short stories,… Continue reading

Michael Yon: As I consider this whole manufactured controversy about my intentions in saying, then and now, that Iraq is in a civil war, and whether or not I used the right definition, and even, ridiculous as it seems, whether I have been hijacked by forces that oppose this war, what strikes me as most… Continue reading