Estimated reading time: 3 minutes It’s hard to know what to make of this curious little novel by Patrick DeWitt. Undermajordomo Minor is unquestionably the strangest tale I’ve read in years—and I read a great deal of science fiction, much of which is surpassingly strange....
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Amy Goldstein frames her insightful new book, Janesville, as An American Story. By following the fortunes of a half-dozen families in Janesville, Wisconsin, Goldstein dramatizes the impact of the Great Recession of 2008 in the years following the closure of a large Chevrolet factory. The recession...
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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes In An Honorable Man, the debut novel by Paul Vidich, we meet George Mueller. In my review of Vidich’s first novel, An Honorable Man (The Cold War, the early CIA, and the McCarthy Era), I described him as “a veteran officer in the early CIA who is...
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When Germany invaded Denmark, Norway, and the Low Countries in April 1940, the British quickly moved to occupy the Danish dependency of Iceland. By 1944, tens of thousands of American troops had joined them there. Their impact on the insular people of the island kingdom was immediate, boosting the...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes Since 2007, Danish thriller writer Jussi Adler-Olsen has written seven bestselling novels in his ongoing series about Department Q at police headquarters in Copenhagen. All the principal characters in their own ways are misfits. Detective Carl Mørck has...
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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.