Please focus on the headline. What you’ll see below is a list of the five best novels about politics—as distinct from political novels. The stories here cast light on the mechanics of the political process—insider baseball, if you will. By contrast, a political novel reflects the...
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Estimated reading time: 7 minutes Odds are strong that you first became fully aware of the term “Western Civilization” through an introductory survey course in college or AP history in high school. And you’ve lived your life since then believing that “the West” boasts...
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As a tourist in London you may have visited Churchill’s War Rooms seventy-three feet below Whitehall. There, Winston Churchill and as many as five hundred other people worked for six years directing Britain’s effort to defeat Nazi Germany. It’s one of London’s most popular...
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On October 7, 1944, some 250 members of the Sonderkommando at Crematorium IV, nearly all of them Jews, staged an uprising at Auschwitz. They had been hand-picked by their SS guards to manage the flow of doomed prisoners, Jews like themselves, herding them into the gas chambers and moving...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Globalization is puzzling. That iPhone you may have at hand contains parts manufactured in forty-three countries on six continents—and that doesn’t even count the raw materials. But how did all that stuff get to the factory in China or India that fit them...
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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.