Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.

The Gothic imagination, that dark predilection for horrors and terrors, specters and sprites, occupies a prominent place in contemporary Western culture. First

This collection of thirteen essays on American literature and culture defines and examines a gothic tradition in frontier writing. As the imaginative border bet

Winner of the Caldecott Medal! For fans of Blueberries for Sal, One Morning in Maine, and Make way for Ducklings. "Out on the islands that poke their rocky shor