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by | Aug 17, 2025

The overabundance of hackery in the mystery genre may cause many people to undervalue the milieu. With good reason, as…

by | Aug 3, 2025

We should’ve known everything was going to hell the moment R. Holden became a bestseller with Happiness Now, a book…

by | Jul 9, 2025

Forget James Bond. George Minden was the real thing. A Romanian aristocrat by birth, he could have spent his days…

by | Jul 5, 2025

Toni at Random: The Iconic Writer’s Legendary Editorship By Dana A. Williams Amistad | 368 pages | $21 Some brief…

by | Jun 29, 2025

A New York Times article last Wednesday teased both a fascinating mystery and its solution, “Why Did the Novel-Reading Man…

by | Jun 26, 2025

The Booksmith, a San Francisco shop that features a “Books, Not Bans” campaign on its website, pulled every J.K. Rowling…

by | May 11, 2025

Marble Hall Murders By Anthony Horowitz (Harper, 583 pages, $31) The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a…

by | Feb 23, 2025

Walter Lippmann: An Intellectual Biography By Tom Arnold-Forster (Princeton University Press, 368 pages, $35) Walter Lippmann was at one time…

by | Feb 2, 2025

Like the distant call of a horn announcing the arrival of the cavalry, news broke this week of Trump’s executive…

by | Jan 11, 2025

It is quite possible to be well read and completely stupid. They are not incompatible. But, as a sociologist, let…

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