The events of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven drift back and forth in time, some […]
Expo 58, by Jonathan Coe
All the world is coming to Brussels for the World’s Fair, beginning in the spring […]
The Monster’s Wife, by Kate Horsley
I often think of characters in terms of Venn diagrams. (Okay, I think of people […]
Saying good-bye to a series
Late on Thursday night (actually, early Friday morning), I finished Deborah Harkness’ The Book of […]
The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
Alzheimer’s is a devastating illness. Newer memories disappear, leaving only older and older memories. Marina […]
The Bullet-Catcher’s Daughter, by Rod Duncan
The word Luddite is now a gentle insult for someone who doesn’t like technology. Two […]
The bogeyman
At the end of 2015, Bavarian publisher Eher Verlag’s copyright on Mein Kampf will expire. […]
Sweetness #9, by Stephan Eirik Clark
It is a truth universally acknowledged—at least it should be—that the Western diet is crap. […]
The Monuments Men, by Robert M. Edsel
In every big disaster movie, when the aliens invade and blow up Paris or a […]