The 14 novels published to date in the Maisie Dobbs series are one of the most pleasurable ways to learn about British history from the First World War to the Second. (The 15th is due in 2019.) Author Jacqueline Winspear skillfully develops the themes that dominated British life during that...
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Humans should really do more research. There were operating manuals that would have warned her not to f*** with us.” So notes the Murderbot, a rogue security unit who has managed to disable the mechanism that forces him to follow human commands. He earned his name some time earlier when he...
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If you follow biomedical news in at least a cursory fashion, you may be aware of current work with brain implants. Researchers have proven in laboratories that they can help the blind to see, the deaf to hear, and stroke patients to communicate when they’re otherwise unable to do so. But...
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If you grew up in a comfortable middle-class home, as I did, you may be shocked by Tara Westover’s Educated, an account of her childhood and adolescence in a Mormon survivalist family in Idaho. I was. Again and again, I found my jaw dropping at the cruelty, ignorance, and superstition...
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes The more mysteries and thrillers I read, the more I see that my tastes are sharpening. I’ve always known that the work of certain bestselling authors left me cold—all those blood-drenched descendants of Mickey Spillane who have learned that brutality and...
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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.