Tracy Kidder on Dr. Paul Farmer: A genius at work
A review of Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder. @@@@@ (5 out of 5)
Read More
Author: Mal Warwick
Crime in Jersey, Janet Evanovich, and other guilty pleasures
If you read Evanovich loyally, as I do, you won’t learn a lot about anything of consequence, not law enforcement, crime, or even the working-class setting in New Jersey where the Stephanie Plum novels are set. Chances are, though, you’ll have a lot of fun.
Read More
Crime in the underbelly of Nazi-era Germany
Celebrate the debut of an emerging star as both a writer of crime novels and of historical fiction. Rebecca Cantrell’s A Trace of Smoke marks the advent of Hannah Vogel, an investigative crime reporter in Berlin in the year 1931, when Adolf Hitler’s brownshirts were dismantling the...
Read More
Who’s to blame for the financial crisis?
Once upon a time, not so long ago, really — it was 1999 — there was a group of three exceedingly smart men whom Time Magazine called The Committee to Save the World. In fact, these three men — Alan Greenspan, Larry Summers, and Robert Rubin — seemed to think they were the...
Read More
From Tana French, a brilliant and satisfying novel of suspense
Faithful Place works on every level: as a suspenseful detective novel, as a psychological study of a horribly dysfunctional family, as a portrait of class relations in contemporary Ireland, and as an excursion into working-class Irish dialect.
Read More
