The second novel in the Six Stories series, a horror novel written as a true crime podcast. This one is very online.
Read MoreA horror novel about true crime podcasts.
Read MoreA fantasy novel set in faux-Imperial China
Read MoreThe history of the concept of extinction.
Read MoreA handy guide to how a President-elect’s Senate seat would be filled.
Read MoreModest comments on my lunch break short story reading.
Read MoreGood thing I watched The Tudors a few years ago
Read MoreA book on the peace conference ending World War One.
Read MoreA history of the Ottoman Empire.
Read MoreA biography of a leading conspiracy theorist in the ‘80s and ‘90s.
Read More“HHhH” (the initials in German for the saying “Himmler’s brain is called Heydrich”) is the story of Operation Anthropoid, the commando mission by Czechoslovakian resistance fighters to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.
Read MoreThere are some horror elements here as well, but mainly “Neverworld Wake” is a mystery with strong science fiction/fantasy elements.
Read MoreIn his introduction to this edition, le Carré says that he wrote it to close out the story of George Smiley.
Read MoreI wasn’t interested in spy novels before Donald Trump became President…
Read More“Schneider Wrack” is a cyberpunk whalecore horror-fantasy novel that takes spiritual inspiration from “Moby Dick.”
Read MoreThis was the only time that the men in pith helmets fought against each other…
Read MoreThe main thing that this novel taught me is that you don’t have to be smart to study Classics…
Read MoreThe novel’s eponymous heroine in fact bears some resemblance to Martin’s Tyrion Lannister…
Read MoreConnoisseurs of state legislatures are well aware that New Hampshire has the largest legislature in the country…
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