One of the reasons I read fiction is to learn history. Oh, I read historical […]
Black Dragon River, by Dominic Ziegler
Between Russia, China, and Mongolia, there is a 4,000 mile long river that marks a […]
Midnight in Siberia, by David Greene
After listening to David Greene’s Midnight in Siberia, I feel like Russia is a bit less […]
The Tsar of Love and Techno, by Anthony Marra
I’ve been waiting for something new from Anthony Marra since 2013, when A Constellation of Vital […]
Red Square, by Martin Cruz Smith
At one point in Red Square, by Martin Cruz Smith, one of Arkady Renko’s temporary […]
The Underground, by Hamid Ismailov
And now for the second book this week that puzzled me so much that I […]
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, by Anya von Bremzen
For the past two weeks, I’ve been having Kathleen Gati read me to sleep with […]
Polar Star, by Martin Cruz Smith
After Arkady Renko’s last case (Gorky Park) ended in a Phyrric victory, he was interned in […]
The Golovlyov Family, by Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
At the end of Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin’s biting satire, The Golovlyov Family, the narrator meditates on the […]
The Age of Ice, by J.M. Sidorova
I received a free copy of this ebook by Netgalley, to review on behalf of […]