No More Cold Iron Shackles on My Feet
When the Reckoning Comes. LaTanya McQueen. 2021. A few years ago I visited Jefferson’s plantation Monticello. I think these days the people who run the »
You Exist Here
A Different Trek: Radical Geographies of Deep Space Nine. David K. Seitz. 2023. Deep Space Nine is my favorite show. I pretend to no objectivity when »
Taking to The Sea, or Not
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder. David Grann. 2023. I never want to go to sea. I look at the ocean as only »
Gentlemen in Moscow, Comrades in America
A Gentleman in Moscow. Amor Towles. 2016. How easy is it, really, to write a book giving respect to people who believe things we don’t »
Spies Like Us
Transcription. Kate Atkinson. 2018. Atkinson seems to specialize in mysteries that aren’t really mysteries, or in thrillers that you don’t realize are mysteries until »