Category: Books
What I bought, read, or otherwise consumed – October 2020
It’s a bit late, but that doesn’t mean it’s not essential reading!
Twentieth Century Geopolitics and East-West Relations in the Shadow of Dr. Fu Manchu
Rereading Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series the past year or so (this is a rewritten 2011 post from my own blog) has been a fascinating experience. Not always the reading. …
Successfully scratched itches, part 5: Comix
After well over forty years, I finally got around to reading one of the earliest serious histories of American comic books.
Be he ever so divergent, there’s no place like Holmes
As I know we have some Holmes fans reading and writing posts here, I thought I’d post this week about two Holmes novels that bend the canon in different ways, …
Octavia Butler’s Parables for a Troubled Time
Recently I revisited books by the late, great Octavia Butler, Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, which are rather apposite reading material for our troubled times
It’s Not Just You
Occasionally people say to me that my columns cost them money. Well… they cost me money too.