Contemporary Culture Archives

Fashion in Fiction

Let’s talk about fictional characters and real fashion. I love this description from Orlando Whitfield’s, All That Glitters: A Story[…]

The COVID conundrum in crime fiction

We were recently in Southeast Asia. One of the highlights for me was the street art in George Town, Malaysia.[…]

Have you been craving stories about serial killers lately? Me too! And it turns out there are reasons for that.[…]

Vanity Fair, which I love, has a “Proust Questionnaire” at the end of each issue. Today we’re asking Lynda Allen, author[…]

TikTok’s Redacted Statements – that weren’t. In October (2024) I wrote about the exploding pagers and walkie talkies Israel got[…]

A third Downton Abby movie is on the way! It was filmed and will premiere on 12th September 2025. To[…]

Almost a year ago my post offered links to music from YouTube, Get Your Free Music Sample Here. Then in[…]

No, I’m not writing about college presidents and billionaire wives’ dissertations. I’m writing about plagiarism as plot in some of[…]

I belong to two book clubs. One, I started during the pandemic, it’s very informal, and we meet once every[…]