He confronted a cobra face to face. He suffered through cerebral malaria, the most deadly form of the disease. Trekked across the featureless wastes of the Sahara for days on end, courting death from thirst. Stumbled through endless stretches of dense rainforest and trackless savannah. And, as his...
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Spoiler alert: this is not one of the detective novels in Jo Nesbo’s celebrated Harry Hole series. But don’t beat yourself up. I was fooled, too. In any case, it’s a truly suspenseful crime novel. Inspector Hole is, of course, the intuitive alcoholic genius who routinely shows up...
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Not so long ago Indian and Indian-American writers were all the rage in literary circles. Jhumpa Lahiri, Amitav Ghosh, Vikram Seth, Kiran Desai, Arundhati Roy—they all found their way onto the shelves and e-screens of hundreds of thousands of American readers. Today it appears that African writers...
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By any measure, he was a remarkable man. At a time in US history when religious passion was seizing hold of the American imagination, he was “the first prophet . . . to traffic in millenarian predictions, and he wasn’t the last. But he was the most successful.” It’s all...
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No living writer today can surpass Alan Furst in his mastery of the historical spy novel. With the dexterity of a veteran stage magician, his writing conjures up the tension and the tragedy of life behind the headlines in Europe of the 1930s and 1940s. Furst’s stories cover the territory...
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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.