Essays on the criminal dystopia that is the world’s oceans (from an NYT series).
Read MoreA theory about an itinerant serial killer in turn-of-the-century America.
Read MoreA mythological tale set in Jazz Age Mexico.
Read MoreA history and justification of Antifa.
Read MoreAn academic history about the transatlantic implications of a slave revolt in Jamaica in 1760-61.
Read MoreAnother horror novel about a changeling, this one with a racial critique.
Read MoreA very GW book about the Bronze Age Collapse.
Read MoreA 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?
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