Crime Fiction
The Tin Roof Blowdown By James Lee Burke
February 16, 2025Because he’s a damn good writer James Lee Burke knows how to keep a plot going...
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Murdering Miss Austen
February 16, 2025Jane Austen, whose sharp tongue barely left her cheek during her short lifetime, and, whose caustic...
Non-Fiction Reviews
A Place for Three Seasons: Crested Butte
February 16, 2025Let us be clear on one thing: physically fit people tend to get more out of...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Notes From Italy: Some Old Envoys
February 16, 2025Counts who stank of garlic–as did the whole country–had sponged on him for seats in his...
Environment
The World Without Us by Alan Weisman
February 16, 2025The North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, informally known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, is a span...
Fiction Reviews
No Man’s Dog: A Detective Sergeant Mulheisen Mystery – by Jon A. Jackson
May 15, 2026In No Man’s Dog Jon Jackson weaves a curious juxtaposition between his long-time hero “Fang” Mulheisen,...
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...
Science
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means – by William T. Vollmann
May 17, 2026With the exceptions of several of his earlier works, every time I take on a book...
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