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‘Henry Wood Detective Agency’ Is Solid Entertainment 27 Aug 2013 | 05:31 am
From time to time, I review a novel and tell you that I admired the writing, but did not like the book, either because of the characters or the values, or just the author’s attitude. Henry Wood Detec...
Children and Cultural Norms 24 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
The cover of the latest edition of Time magazine features two beautiful people, a man and woman, laying in the sand, contentment on their faces under the title of the cover story, “The Childfree Live:...
Leonard, Michaels and the Passing of American Values 22 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
Two prominent authors of crime fiction left us in the last week, but only one received much public attention. Both, however, deserve consideration, and their deaths mark another milestone in the passi...
‘Unlimited’ Has Limits, But Rewards the Reader 22 Aug 2013 | 04:59 am
Simon Orwell is a bartender who used to be an electrical engineer. When we first encounter him in Davis Bunn’s novel Unlimited, he’s in a Mexican ditch, fleeing an assassin, trying to protect a device...
Albert Murray RIP 20 Aug 2013 | 09:48 pm
Albert Murray, one of the giants of American culture, died last weekend. He was 97 years old and lived a full, rich, deeply American life. If you’ve never heard of Murray, you’re not alone. He was ...
Russian Athletes’ Kiss Sparks Political Speculation 20 Aug 2013 | 08:37 pm
Now that American homosexual-advocacy groups rule the United States, they are trying to advance their agenda worldwide, as you have undoubtedly heard. The latest issue on their agenda is the Russian F...
Breaking Bad’s Final Season Off to a Great Start 20 Aug 2013 | 12:15 am
Breaking Bad’s final season is off with a bang, with two of the strongest episodes in the history of this exceptional series. For those who haven’t followed the show (warning: spoilers to follow), i...
Detective Stories, Democracy, and Rule of Law 15 Aug 2013 | 11:58 pm
In his classic book on Golden Age mysteries, Murder for Pleasure, the critic Howard Haycraft makes the claim that the detective story can exist only in a democracy. The reason for this, he states, is ...
Daniel Day Lewis is Scary Good as Lincoln 11 Aug 2013 | 11:46 pm
Living in the land of Lincoln for way too many years, we’ve talked of heading down to Springfield to learn a bit about his life. We finally did that recently, and it seemed after that like a good time...
Book Review: ‘Island of the White Rose’ 10 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Island of the White Rose – By R. Ira Harris – Bridge Works Publishing – 2013 – Hardcover – 243 pages – ISBN 978-0-9816175-5-8 Now and then we all need to be reminded about how the world got into this...
