Nineteen-twenties Shanghai harbored both the best and the worst of China in the early decades after the fall of the Qing Dynasty. It was the largest city in the country, the most prosperous, and the most dynamic. Since the mid-19th century, Europeans and Americans had controlled the wealthiest...
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The title is off-putting. It’s hard to imagine a clever science fiction story built around an expert system. Expert systems were among the earliest approaches to artificial intelligence. In building an expert system, one or more human experts in a given field transferred their knowledge to a...
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Many authors of mystery and suspense fiction write with a light hand, speeding their stories along with breezy dialogue and only sketchy scene-setting. Jason Matthews is different, and the three books of the Red Sparrow Trilogy prove it. Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In all three stories,...
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Here are more than two dozen good books about the Holocaust plus four others that help explain how the Holocaust came about and proceeded without meaningful opposition for so long. They include both fiction and nonfiction. Within each of the two categories below I’ve listed the books in...
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Dumb criminals populate some of the funniest novels ever written. Jimmy Breslin’s 1969 bestseller, The Gang That Couldn’t Shoot Straight, became a film two years later starring Robert De Niro and Jerry Orbach. Many of Elmore Leonard’s books feature criminals who give new meaning...
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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.