From PopMatters, a review of The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys by Carole Kismaric and Marvin Heiferman. Move over, Prep and Harry Potter — Taylor Antrim has written the great American (or is that Korean-American?) boarding school novel, The Headmaster Ritual. The “golden age” is an apt term for the inter-war whodunnits – it describes exactly what these novels were trying to regain or create, after the horror and chaos they had just passed through. Somehow, cyberspace and the real world switched places: An interview with William Gibson on Spook Country. Race, the final frontier: Black science-fiction writers bring a unique perspective to the genre. Do novels fall into two classes? Anthony Burgess argued that novels were engaged either with the world, or with language. A striking claim, but not a

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