A Woman Underground By Andrew Klavan (Mysterious Press, 288 pages, $27) Sometimes it takes several entries in a fiction series to strike gold. There were three terrific James Bond movies before the ultimate, Thunderball (Sorry, Goldfinger aficionados). And Hercule Poirot…
Foolsburg: The History of a Town By Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin (Vintage, 304 pages, $17) In the spring of 2022, as Russian armored columns plunged into the Ukrainian heartland, and as 152 mm artillery shells and Iskander missiles rained down upon Ukrainian…
Behind Closed Doors: In the Room With Reagan & Nixon By Ken Khachigian (Post Hill Press, 496 pages, $35) Ken Khachigian, who worked as an aide and speechwriter to Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, has written a marvelous memoir…
A Refiner’s Fire: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (The Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries, 33) By Donna Leon (Atlantic Monthly Press, 288 pages, $22.00) Donna Leon’s 33rd installment of her immensely popular Commissario (detective inspector) Guido Brunetti series shows that at 82…
With ongoing reports of supposed “book bans” and legislation being passed to “combat” them, it’s important to understand what’s really going on. Both the side arguing that these books somehow “save lives” as well as the side saying, “You’re an…
I’m not sure why I think this, but Good Lord This Has Been A Long Week. I suppose it’s because I’m busy as hell right now — I’m writing From Hellmarsh With Love, which by the way is serializing here…
Numerous professional writers — historians, political scientists, and journalists — have described a divided and dispirited America with no shining city on a hill in sight. In a 2023 Wall Street Journal–NORC poll, only 38 percent of respondents said patriotism…
You already know this, but we live in deeply stuffy, oppressive times. You can get canceled for saying the wrong thing, not saying the right thing, or even looking at someone in a way they don’t like. Don’t believe me?…
Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of Scott McKay’s new novel, From Hellmarsh With Love, which is being released exclusively at The American Spectator each weekend in September and October, before its full publication on Amazon later this fall. From…
