How do you humanize a monster? Perhaps if you dig deeply into his early years, when he was a young revolutionary. As a thug, a bank robber, a killer, to be sure. But decades before he became the all-powerful mass murderer who starved millions of Ukrainians to death, sent millions more to the gulag...
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A Harris Poll released in November 2022 by U.S. News & World Report revealed just how deeply divided Americans are about race. Forty-seven percent of Americans—and 71 percent of White Americans—said they were “unconvinced that systemic racism exists in the U.S.” And in a YouGov...
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Russia holds the Crimea. But Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is nine months in the future as the tenth in the series of Arkady Renko novels opens in Moscow. The long-suffering police detective has been confined to make-work desk duty by his seemingly all-powerful boss, Prosecutor Zurin....
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Quantum mechanics puzzled even Einstein, and string theory later added layers of complexity. Just try imagining ten dimensions, or, for that matter, even four-dimensional space. And, no, time is not the fourth dimension. They’re all spatial dimensions, like height, width, and depth. Try it....
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Demography is destiny. Viewed from the broadest perspective, history chronicles the growth and spread of the human race throughout the most distant points on the globe. Over time, we observe the shifting ethnic boundaries, the accretion of knowledge, the building...
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Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review,
with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review,
with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.
Mysteries & Thrillers Tuesday includes my latest mystery and thriller book review, with links to other science fiction content.
Nonfiction Wednesday includes my latest nonfiction book review, with links to other nonfiction content.
The Weekly includes summaries and links to all the previous week’s three to five book reviews, including some that don’t appear in any of the other newsletters.