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Sherlock Holmes
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.
January 12, 2017
Jo Livingstone
Sherlock’s New World Order
When everything is falling apart, detective mystery can only function as escapism.
May 22, 2014
Hillary Kelly
Watch Arthur Conan Doyle Explain How He Invented Sherlock Holmes
March 18, 2014
Alexander Aciman
Literary Fan Fiction: John Banville Does Raymond Chandler
October 26, 2013
David A. Bell
This Is What Happens When Historians Overuse the Idea of the Network
November 8, 2010
Elizabeth D. Samet
Sherlock Holmes, the Superhero

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