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 »
Science Fiction at the End of the World
Warm Worlds and Otherwise. James Tiptree, Jr. 1975. It kind of feels like the world is spinning apart sometimes, doesn’t it? I don’t want »
Into the Woods
The Vaster Wilds. Lauren Groff. 2023. As I read this book I kept expecting something different to happen, and only the same things happened - until »
Mark and Percival and Jim and James
James. Percival Everett. 2024. I like to say about Mark Twain that he was the greatest American writer who never wrote a great novel. He could »