If you read what critics write about contemporary fiction, you’ll run across the term bildungsroman from time to time. It’s a German word signifying a novel about an individual’s formative years or spiritual education. Which is a pretty good description of at least the first...
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Americans tend to think that the United States won World War II. Some even seem to believe we did so single-handedly. But while that may be substantially true in the case of the Pacific War against Imperial Japan, it was most assuredly not so in Europe. For one thing, the war there had been raging...
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J. P. Delaney isn’t a science fiction writer. In fact, he’s not even J. P. Delaney. He’s a bestselling British author named Anthony Capella who writes under several different names (Anthony Strong, Tony Strong, and J. P. Delaney). His books about food, his favorite topic, appear...
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Here’s a novel that brings together the Swedish Minister of Defense, a doomed ascent of Mount Everest, Russian mobsters and the GRU, and a paranoid schizophrenic Sherpa guide, with Stieg Larsson’s mismatched couple, Mikael Blomqvist and Lisbeth Salander. And she, Lisbeth, is still...
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Historians squabble about how change has happened over the five thousand years of recorded human events. Is it the influence, whether malign or constructive, of those individuals called Great Men? Is it the material circumstances of society at a given moment in history, as a certain breed of...
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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.