Stories By John Holt
Fiction Reviews
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
May 26, 2026I read this book in one take late at night and immediately headed downstairs to kick...
Fiction Reviews
The Lay of the Land by Richard Ford
May 25, 2026The characters are well-drawn, clear, as are locations, thought processes and motivations but all the time...
Japan
A Grand Tour of Asia – by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson
May 23, 2026I’m not sure what category A Grand Tour of Asia by Hania Tallmadge and Beverley Jackson...
Fiction Reviews
The Works of Max Crawford
May 22, 2026Being a serious writer in a time when swill by corrupt business tycoons, politicians and not-funny...
Biography
Walking It Off – by Doug Peacock
May 22, 2026Doug Peacock’s reputation frequently precedes him as does that of his late, larger-than-life friend and father...
Fiction Reviews
The True Account: A Novel of the Lewis and Clark and Kinneson Expeditions by Howard Frank Mosher
May 20, 2026Enter Howard Frank Mosher and his delightfully picaresque novel THE TRUE ACCOUNT – A Novel of...
Fiction Reviews
Stewball – by Peter Bowen
May 18, 2026I’ll begin by saying that I enjoyed immensely the first seven or eight novels in Peter...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Silk Road to Ruin: Is Central Asia the New Middle East? by Ted Rall
May 18, 2026Who are the Stans? What are the Stans? Where are the Stans and what in the...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Madness – by James Crumley
May 17, 2026No one else tells the stories like Crumley, has his voice, his confidence or absolute fearlessness...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Quiet Mountains – A Ten-Year Search for the Last Wild Trout of Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental – by Rex Johnson, Jr.
May 16, 2026One region I’ve always wanted to wander about in is Mexico’s Sierra Madre Occidental mountains, a...




