Colleen McCullough's 1977 novel, The Thorn Birds, became an international publishing sensation as its sales climbed past the seven-million mark. This saga of three generations in an Irish Catholic family in Australia seemed to pique interest in the...

So there was A. Gifford Miller, standing around in khakis and one of his candy-stripe Sea Island cotton button-downs outside the Western Beef on Merrick Boulevard in Queens. “We Know the Neighborhood,” the acid orange sign stated flatly. A big black dude in blue-tinted square-frame...

So there was A. Gifford Miller, standing around in khakis and one of his candy-stripe Sea Island cotton button-downs outside the Western Beef on Merrick Boulevard in Queens.“We Know the Neighborhood,” the acid orange sign stated flatly. A big black dude in blue-tinted square-frame sunglasses...

In the following essay, Steinberg reports on McCullough's Roman history series and offers insight into the author's motivations for writing it.

In the following review, Grimstad provides a brief plot summary of An Indecent Obsession and comments that the novel lacks complexity.

Below, Mitchell offers an unfavorable review of A Creed for the Third Millennium.