My name is Yon Yonson, I work in Wisconsin, I work in a lumber mill there. God, I loved this book. [Roadside Picnic, by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky (New Translation]
Maybe if you already have a sleep disorder, nightmares, and hallucinations, don’t take this one to bed with you. Or do. I don’t know, I’m not your mom. [Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem]
Wherein Archie hosts a dinner party to solve a triple murder. I still haven’t met a Nero Wolfe book I didn’t like. [Murder by the Book, by Rex Stout]
Disco Elysium is something else. I loved the endlessly surprising inner monologue, the four-million lines of dialogue, the furies and the Pale and the hunt for the phasmid. I loved the rundown setting, the noir investigation, the self awareness of ga
Equal parts biography, philosophy, and history lesson, Bakewell writes about the Existentialists with boundless and infectious exuberance. I readily followed her through two world wars and a cold one as Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Merleau-Ponty (and
Growing up mostly feral, in a small, rural town, a ratty copy of Edith Hamilton’s Mythology always stuck in my coat pocket, this one hit me like Paris hit Achilles. Frenetic, raw, and jittering with edgy energy, I absolutely could not put it d
A book of beautiful paradoxes grounded in the histories of three men who questioned and therefore forever changed the way we understand (and will never understand) reality. This is synthesis of literature, philosophy, and science all distilled down t
Could Dava Sobel’s latest—about the life and influence of Marie Curie—be anything besides a powerful and poignant mix of illumination and heartbreak? I stormed through this one where, once again, Sobel proves her prowess at explai
Agony Hill is subtle, stark, and beautifully unsettling. Can’t wait for more in this new series from Sarah Stewart Taylor. [Agony Hill, by Sarah Stewart Taylor]
Really quite a lot of very eloquent grumbling. I loved it. [In Praise of Shadows by Junichiro Tanizaki]
Absolutely thrilled to have my short story, "Good Harvest" (originally published in Rock + Hard Place Magazine) included in The Best Mystery Stories of the Year 2024, from The Mysterious Bookshop. Available now!
I’m so glad Amy Tan became obsessed with birds and learned to draw them even as she wrote (beautifully and hilariously) about them. I could so easily have fallen down the bird-watching rabbit hole and, instead, I can just live (and marvel and l

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