Most Americans remember the date 1492 as the year Christopher Columbus “discovered” the New World. Europeans recall it for other reasons as well. Because in 1492 the Christian kingdoms of Castile and Aragon conquered the Emirate of Granada, ending 800 years of Muslim rule on the...
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Since Intruder in the Dust (1948) by William Faulkner and James Dickey’s Deliverance (1970) pioneered the genre, Southern noir has attracted a wide following. Scores of other authors have rushed to create works that evoke the grim atmospherics of the rural American South. But in recent years...
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Although I tend to favor fictional rather than factual stories about crime, I’ve read many of the most widely admired true crime books. Some, I read years before I began posting reviews in 2010. But I’ve devoured many since. And below I’m listing the best of them. You’ll...
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On Friday, December 3, 1926, Agatha Christie vanished from her home in Berkshire. Eleven days later, a banjo player entertaining at the hotel in Harrogate where she was staying recognized her from the photos he’d seen in the extensive press coverage of her disappearance. After all, the story...
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NASA has dreamed of sending astronauts to Mars for at least the past six decades. For a time in the late 1960s and early ’70s, agency officials advanced plans to do just that once the Apollo program had wound down. Those plans faltered, of course, foiled by political and budgetary pressures...
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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.