
Novel: Rabbits by Terry Miles
Terry Miles’ Rabbits (2021) is definitely my kind of book: a fast-paced, inventive adventure full of secret realities and…
January 22, 2023Terry Miles’ Rabbits (2021) is definitely my kind of book: a fast-paced, inventive adventure full of secret realities and…
January 22, 2023In year chock-full of wonderful shows, Apple’s Slow Horses, based on the intricate, funny spy novels of Mick Herron,…
December 31, 2022Lydia Millet is nothing if not versatile, and Dinosaurs (2022) shows her in my favorite mode: a contemporary setting,…
December 26, 2022Sometimes it’s impossible to turn off your internal editor/writer brain when you’re reading, and while that can be horribly…
December 17, 2022For accessible, engaging storytelling, Emily St. John Mandel’s Sea of Tranqiuility (2022) is unsurprisingly successful, a quick and effortless…
November 16, 2022Mick Herron makes this stuff look easy. Effortlessly read, fast-paced, and funny, Real Tigers (2016) is the third full Slough House…
November 9, 2022I love an inventive, close-to-home space opera with political edge–think The Expanse, or Ian McDonald’s Luna trilogy. Maurice Broaddus’s…
October 18, 2022In between the major novels of the Slough House spy series, Mick Herron has also penned a handful of…
August 7, 2022The previous novels in N.K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy played deft tricks with narrative, alternating viewpoints in clever, deceptive…
August 5, 2022There are some writers who can gather disparate, seemingly incongruous influences and combine them unpredictably into something truly memorable.…
June 7, 2022The always reliable Charles Cumming’s new series begins with Box 88 (2020), a time-jumping spy thriller about a clandestine…
May 30, 2022I have a feeling certain readers will dismiss Jennifer Egan’s The Candy House (2022) based on the unique circumstances…
May 1, 2022When it comes to “big idea” specfic, Hannu Rajaniemi is one of the best in the business. In his…
April 17, 2022I loved Jim Gavin’s collection Middle Men, which isn’t surprising, although it is surprising how intense the conceptual continuity…
March 20, 2022Secondary-world fantasy isn’t traditionally my sweet spot, but when Naseem Jamnia’s The Bruising of Qilwa (2022) showed up in…
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