Among the Wolves of Court by Lauren Mackay
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Mackay’s intensely painstaking excavation of what life was like for an infamous set of Tudor courtiers is eye-opening.
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It’s a Mystery: “Experience, contrary to common belief, is mostly imagination”
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Leon portrays Venice, one of the most intriguing cities on earth, with an added dimension all her own.
Read MoreThe Very Best of the Best: 35 Years of the Year's Best Science Fiction
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The science fiction world now has this one last hefty volume of wonders as a reminder of a great editor now gone.
Read MoreLandfall by Thomas Mallon
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In this third book as in the first two, a prodigious amount of research congregates right beneath the chatty, fast-moving surface of the plot.
Read MoreIran Rising by Amin Saikal
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Iran Rising brings the story of the Islamic Republic through the throes of revolution and down to the present day.
Read MoreIf We Can Keep It by Michael Tomasky
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Any hope that the book might somehow stagger on to hit some thought-provoking points is dashed fairly early and keeps getting dashed throughout the book
Read MoreAmerican Pop by Snowden Wright
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A multi-generational historical novel about the Forster family and their burgeoning but perpetually troubled soft drink company.
Read MoreZucked by Roger McNamee
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This book traces the author’s personal history and the well-known origin story of Facebook.
Read MoreAmerican Cosmic by D. W. Pasulka
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Pasulka deals with two general groups of people who “interpret, spin, produce, and market the story of UFO events to the general public.”
Read MoreTrump Sky Alpha by Mark Doten
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A speculative novel that dares to be rigorously inventive and left-field profound and wholly accessible.
Read MoreStalker by Lars Kepler
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A sharply whittled Scandanavian thriller by a husband and wife writing team.
Read MoreTeam of Vipers by Cliff Sims
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There’s virtually nothing in this book that couldn’t have been written by a careful viewer of MSNBC.
Let Me Finish by Chris Christie
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A defense that seems full-throated but actually allows the defender a good deal of leeway to back out if things get rocky
Read MoreIt’s a Mystery: “Evil for evil’s sake is an invention of man”
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A mystery that comes together like the bulletin board full of thread and pins.
Read MoreWatch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming by T.L. Taylor
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A study of Twitch, live streaming, and the far-reaching impact it has on gaming culture and modern media consumption.
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A Supernatural War by Owen Davies
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The author charts subtle changes about the ways humans charge their world with supernatural relevances.
Read MoreFour Novels of the 1930s by John O’Hara
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These novels gave form to the unreachable dreams of glory that would motivate and torment O’Hara for the rest of his professional career.
Read MoreDiderot and the Art of Thinking Freely by Andrew S. Curran
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Curran’s book is a brilliant, sparkling affair that courses over every major and minor incident in Diderot’s remarkable life.
Read MoreThe Winter of the Witch by Katherine Arden
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The final entry in the Winternight trilogy, this novel blends both the political intrigue of the second novel and whimsical nature of the first.
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