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Andrew Dix, The Conversation

‘Holly’: Stephen King’s timely work of crime fiction about not judging a book by its cover

King’s turn towards crime fiction in recent work, including ‘Holly’, should not be taken as implying abandonment of the horror tradition.

Andrew Dix, The Conversation
· Oct 16, 2023 · 05:30 pm
The case of ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ and why we watch films even though we know how they end

Everyone knows whodunnit, but the movie version of Agatha Christie’s acclaimed crime novel has other pleasures.

Andrew Dix, The Conversation
· Nov 12, 2017 · 09:15 am
Two Man Bookers in a row: Why the British shouldn’t be sore at American literary success

After Paul Beatty in 2016, the 2017 winner George Saunders is the second American to lift the £ 50,000 award.

Andrew Dix, The Conversation
· Oct 21, 2017 · 06:30 pm