Marble Hall Murders By Anthony Horowitz (Harper, 583 pages, $31) The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary fictional detective…
Seeing the Supernatural: Investigating Angels, Demons, Mystical Dreams, Near-Death Encounters, and Other Mysteries of the Unseen World By Leo Strobel (Zondervan, 320 pages, $23) Perhaps I’ve been watching too much 70s TV lately. But I couldn’t help but think of…
Well, it looks as if it’s time once again for my more or less annual piece about Joan Didion. I didn’t set out to make this a yearly tradition. Way back in 2007, I wrote what I thought was a…
Elon Musk By Walter Isaacson (Simon & Schuster, 688 pages, $35) “To anyone I’ve ever offended, I just want to say, I reinvented electric cars and I’m sending people to Mars in a rocket ship. Did you think I was…
Voices of the Fallen Heroes and Other Stories By Yukio Mishima (Vintage International, 272 pages, $16) There has always been reason to fear The vengeful rage of angry ghosts. …
Ghosts of a Holy War: The 1929 Massacre in Palestine that Ignored the Arab-Israeli Conflict By Yardena Schwartz (Union Square & Co., 432 pages, $30) In the immediate aftermath of the horrific Hamas attack on Israel of October 7, 2023,…
Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography By Tom Arnold-Forster (Princeton University Press, 368 pages, $35) Walter Lippmann was at one time the most influential American writer on politics and world affairs. His writing career spanned the time period from the Progressive…
Didion & Babitz By Lili Anolik (Scribner, 352 pages, $30) When I saw that a new book was out entitled Didion & Babitz, my first reaction was to ask: “Who the hell is Babitz?” My second reaction was to buy…
Weep, Shudder, Die: On Opera and Poetry By Dana Gioia (Paul Dry Books, 198 pages, $20) “People’s reaction to opera the first time they see it is very dramatic. They either love it or they hate it. If they love…
