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Arthur Conan Doyle
August 31, 2018
Jo Livingstone
The Irreverent Joys of a Japanese Sherlock Holmes
HBO's new take on Arthur Conan Doyle's detective sees two young women solving crimes in present-day Japan.
June 14, 2018
Sarah Weinman
Arthur Conan Doyle, True Detective
How the author of the Sherlock Holmes stories fought for—and ultimately turned against—a man wrongfully convicted
May 22, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Watch Arthur Conan Doyle Explain How He Invented Sherlock Holmes
February 22, 2012
William Deresiewicz
That is So! That is So!
February 10, 2011
Christopher Benfey
The Embroiderer
November 8, 2010
Elizabeth D. Samet
Sherlock Holmes, the Superhero

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