In 2015, Becky Chambers published the first volume in her award-winning Wayfarers series. She has completed three books to date. Meanwhile, Chambers found time to write an excellent hard science fiction novella of quite a different sort. (Others might call a book of this length a novel.) While To...
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The 1920s were a pivotal era in African-American history. Black soldiers returning from service in World War I brought new energy to the slowly gathering movement for equal rights. Nationally, the NAACP, formed in 1909, was working for the passage of an anti-lynching law to combat the resurgence...
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Sometimes a screen adaptation veers far from the trajectory of the novel on which it’s based. That’s not the case with Margaret Atwood’s Handmaid’s Tale sequel, The Testaments. Instead, Atwood takes up the story of the women of Gilead following events seen on the screen....
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Robert Kuttner has been helping set the progressive agenda for three decades as the cofounder and (current) coeditor of The American Prospect and as a cofounder and board member of the Economic Policy Institute. So, it’s hard to think of anyone better qualified to make the case for electing...
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There are several ways to get to know India. Naturally, you can move there and stay for, say, a couple of dozen years. (Anything much shorter won’t do the trick.) You could also read all the travel guides ever written about the country, and that might give you a pretty good sense of the...
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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.