As Timothy Hallinan writes in an Author’s Note at the conclusion of Crashed, the first novel in his series featuring the career burglar Junior Bender, criminals are “intrinsically interesting because they’ve rejected the standard set of values and, since we all need values of...
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I’ve read a lot of biographies and memoirs since I began posting book reviews in January 2010. I’m listing here 100 titles that I can recommend, omitting many that underwhelmed me (in addition to others I couldn’t finish reading). These books cover a wide range of both historical...
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Viet Thanh Nguyen’s remarkable debut novel, The Sympathizer, has won a slew of literary awards, including the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It was also a finalist for a number of other prestigious awards and has been named a Best Book of the Year on more than twenty lists, including those...
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Americans who take their first trip from country to country in Latin America and the Caribbean are often astounded by the region’s diversity. From Argentina, which is more heavily influenced by Italy and Spain than by any country to its north; to the polyglot island-states of the Caribbean;...
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If the Dead Rise Not is either the third or the sixth novel in Philip Kerr’s series about the indomitable Berlin detective Bernie Gunther, a policeman in Hitler’s Germany. The ranking depends on whether you take into account the three much earlier books in the Berlin Noir series that...
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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.