No country in the world suffered greater devastation in World War II than Poland, not even the Soviet Union, where as many as twenty-seven million people died. Poland’s six million dead represented an even higher proportion of the pre-war population—about one in five. And Poland’s...
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When Martin Cruz Smith published the first of the Arkady Renko detective novels in 1981, no one could foresee that the series would still be going strong more than forty years later. But so it is. The resilient Russian detective has survived a decade of tussles with the KGB under Leonid Brezhnev...
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Novelists, filmmakers, and scholars alike have speculated about how the world might end. Nuclear war. A killer pandemic. Unbearable heat. A supervolcano. Or a dozen other imagined versions of the Apocalypse. In fiction, or in scenario planning, they sometimes help us think about what might happen...
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Sixty thousand years ago our species began migrating out of Africa, and we’ve been on the move ever since. Today, war, climate change, criminal gangs, and rising expectations of a good life drive ever-larger numbers of people from their homelands—usually in the hot countries of the Global...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes When we study American history in high school or college, we learn that Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Territory from the French and James Polk launched the Mexican-American War. But what we don’t often learn about are the context in which Presidents...
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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.