A little oral history of the making of my favorite video game.
Read MoreA novel about the search for Prester John that crosses back and forth from fiction to reality on several levels.
Read MoreA short, punchy historical fiction about the Khazars in the 10th Century.
Read MoreThe first novel by my favorite author that I have read in over a decade.
Read MoreA detective novel that triggered my “cult classic” sense.
Read MoreWhen Kim Jong-Il kidnapped a South Korean director and actress to make movies for him.
Read MoreA famous, meditative travelogue.
Read MoreA murder mystery on Hogarth’s Gin Lane.
Read MoreA novel following three actresses from a party in Berlin in 1928 through the rest of their journeys. You may have heard of them.
Read MoreA somewhat more Gatsbyesque detective story.
Read MoreAn important piece of noir history, and nothing more.
Read MoreIn the last novel in the series, the revolution finally comes to New Crobuzon (with bonus review of the last piece of New Crobuzon writing, the short story “Jack.”).
Read MorePirate-themed swashbuckling fantasy novel, or whalepunk public works project handbook?
Read MoreA famously urbanist work of weird fiction (and the first book in a fantasy trilogy).
Read MoreA book about the tabletop wargame, not about the regime.
Read MoreA New Wave science fiction novel about television and immortality.
Read MoreDonna Tartt’s middle novel, about art history.
Read MoreThe premier British politics novel; a review slightly less timely than it would have been before Corbyn was obliterated, but there you go.
Read MorePart of a series of academic studies about every post-war British General Election
Read MoreA pop biography that does not live up to its condemnatory potential.
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