William Randolph Hearst thundered into New York City in 1895, intent on making history with a brash new approach to writing and selling newspapers. The following year he bought the ailing New York Evening Journal to compete with his old mentor, Joseph Pulitzer, who published the city’s...
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When Hannah Arendt introduced the word totalitarianism into the English language in 1951, she had in mind the Stalinist and Nazi regimes in the USSR and Germany. But, as later scholars have made clear. neither government had achieved a level of control over its citizenry that could be described as...
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Dystopian novels typically involve high-level drama and violence. People die. Usually lots of them. But dystopia doesn’t have to fit that mold. Helen Phillips ably demonstrates that proposition in her low-key story about one family in a near-future America who become caught up in the gears...
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Adrian Gyle has been working with little distinction or reward as a reporter in Hong Kong for more than twenty years. He had “arrived in Hong Kong just after the Handover, knowing nobody except my old university friend Jimmy Tang.” He and Jimmy, a notorious womanizer, had been...
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No, in spite of this book’s title, it’s not a story about a Russian spy in the CIA’s Moscow Station. It’s something much more engaging—an account of a long-running counterespionage investigation into KGB surveillance technology at the US Embassy in Moscow. An investigation...
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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.