Patrick Reardon

For eleven years now, I’ve been reading all of Elmore Leonard’s 45 novels, and now I’m done. I’m sorry the odyssey is over; it was such fun. Over the years, [...]

Lynn Marie Faulkner, a 28-year-old record promoter in Detroit, is more than a little attracted to a guy called Juvenal who works at an alcohol rehab center. He was easy [...]

There’s a running gag through Poul Anderson’s 1959 science-fiction novel Virgin Planet, but, before I get to that, the scene needs to be set. Davis Bertram — in our era, [...]

In his 2025 book Twelve Churches: An Unlikely History of the Buildings That Made Christianity, Fergus Butler-Gallie takes the reader on what he calls a journey “in bricks and mortar, [...]

When it comes to history, including religious history, Rowan Williams, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, writes that it’s important to attempt “a real engagement with the strangeness of the past.” [...]

Over the past ten years, I’ve been reading Terry Pratchett’s 41 Discworld novels pretty much in order, and it’s been a delightful journey. I’d read all of the novels before [...]

I am of several minds about this review, or, as Tiffany Aching would phrase it, I’m having First Thoughts, Second Thoughts and Third Thoughts. On the one hand, I’m thinking [...]