There is something very British about Ben Macintyre's "Operation Mincemeat," detailing the plot to deceive Nazi Germany about the plans of the Allies to invade Sicily at a key moment [...]
It may seem odd, but there are a surprising number of poets who have also cranked out mysteries, and vice versa. Edgar Allan Poe, of course, is known for his [...]
If ever there were a trigger warning needed, it’s the one for David Scott Hay’s new novel [NSFW] which cautions the reader that the novel includes “sex, drug use, witchcraft, [...]
Andre Norton was at the very start of her career as a novelist in the early 1950s. By the time of her death in 2005 at the age of 93, [...]
Odysseus’s episode inside the cave of the cyclops Polyphemos plays an outsize role in Tad Crawford’s On Wine-Dark Seas: A Novel of Odysseus and His Fatherless Son Telemachus. Telemachus, the [...]
There is an elegiac quality to Kathleen Naureckas’s 2012 poetry chapbook For the Duration. The title is a reference to the phrase she remembered in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, during World [...]
Relatively early in Christopher Moore’s heartwarming tale of Christmas terror titled The Stupidest Angel, he notes: According to the DSM-IV, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, you had [...]
There are a goodly number of alternative-history novels that imagine what life would have been like if Hitler had won World War II, and I’ve read my share. Three of [...]
The appearance of Mary, the mother of Jesus, to Aztec peasant Juan Diego in December, 1531, on the hill of Tepeyac outside of Mexico City, is different from and more [...]
The tone of C.S. Forester’s 1926 novel Payment Deferred is distinctively light and breezy. Think of the way a great storyteller sitting at a campfire might spin a tale about [...]
