Fiction Reviews
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
March 2, 2025Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
Fiction Reviews
The Right Side of the Tracks
March 1, 2025Detective fiction revels in the possibilities offered by railway travel, but it also expresses some anxiety...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Curses on You, White Men!
March 1, 2025The inhumane acts committed by both sides in this war equal the most heinous crimes of...
Historical Fiction
True Freedom How America came to fight Britain for its independence.
March 1, 2025Can one man create a revolution? While I was working on my novel True Freedom, centering...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Arizona’s Kartchner Caverns
March 1, 2025"Tufts and Tenen saw themselves as guardians of the cave. They were extremely concerned that their...
Mythology
Notes from Italy: A Homer of the Dolomites
March 1, 2025Some say that the story of the Kingdom of Fanes is an epic that goes back...
Fiction Reviews
Girl Factory by Jim Krusoe
February 28, 2025And, in true Krusoeian fashion, the oddities are delightful. Jonathan, the adult narrator with a childlike...
Music
The Rock Posters of Rich Black
February 28, 2025A photographic essay: The Rock Posters of Rich Black.
Non-Fiction Reviews
God’s Crucible by David Levering Lewis
February 28, 2025For English-speaking peoples, 1066 and 1776 still evoke powerful recollections of liberty lost and freedom won....
Non-Fiction Reviews
What the Gospels Meant by Garry Wills
February 28, 2025And if Wills reads as persuasive, it is to himself, if not quite to this reader....
Writers
George & Jacintha: On the Limits of Literary Biography
February 27, 2025The claim that George Orwell once tried to rape someone received scant attention in the United...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
February 27, 2025But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Christina Binkley on Las Vegas and the Gaming Industry
February 27, 2025"At Wynn Las Vegas, for instance, there is a special and very luxurious entrance for guests...
Nature
Man vs Fish: The Fly Fisherman’s Eternal Struggle by Taylor Streit
February 27, 2025This is the tough time of the year for those such as myself who love and...
Fiction Reviews
Hocus POTUS by Malcolm MacPherson
February 26, 2025Satire, of course, does not depend on subtlety. However, there are more effective ways to wield...
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Fiction Reviews
BEYOND THE WALK.
February 26, 2025Beyond The Walk. When five young college students trapped in mid-town Manhattan from very different countries...
Writers
Coffee with… Series
February 26, 2025Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Worries of a Liberal Conservative
February 26, 2025My friend objects that “Islamofascists” will never change their ways. Sure, there are deadly and dangerous...
Non-Fiction Reviews
My Father’s World
February 25, 2025In my father’s world, books are sacred objects. Authors are to be worshiped, especially those who...
Fiction Reviews
Double Cross – By James Patterson
February 25, 2025I love John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee series but always thought that his love scenes were...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Images from How To Photograph an Atomic Bomb
June 9, 2026Between 1945 and 1962, the United States conducted over 300 atmospheric nuclear tests above the ground,...
Fiction Reviews
William Gibson: The Father of Cyberpunk
June 7, 2026"The part of me that walks around and does interviews is incapable of doing very much...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What The Buddha Taught by Walpola Rahula
May 22, 2026What The Buddha Taught accurately describes itself as a reliable introduction to Buddhism. As a religion...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Gen·e·sis: The Scientific Quest for Life’s Origin by Robert M. Hazen
May 23, 2026In all the recent noise over the higher steps of evolution and the proper way to...
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...
Biography
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon by Crystal Zevon
June 7, 2026I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead is sort of an extended wake for its subject. There’s very...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Michael Behe on The Edge of Evolution
June 7, 2026"I conclude that Darwinian processes account for little of the machinery of life, and that most...
Science
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth’s Ancient Atmosphere by Peter Douglas Ward
June 3, 2026In an age when ad agencies regularly apply “revolutionary” to new car models and digital toys,...
Fiction Reviews
After Dark by Haruki Murakami
May 30, 2026This relationship — Mari, plain and studious; Eri, "gorgeous" and shallow — is our first intimation...
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