In the middle of his account of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham — one of the most consequential events in world history — D. Peter MacLeod writes about [...]
I realized recently that I don’t know how to think about the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. What I mean is that the Getty, founded in 1974 by [...]
It is important that there is a book such as Art T. Burton’sBlack Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshall Bass Reeves to ensure that the memory [...]
Normally, I’d just as soon know little or nothing about the author of a novel I’m reading. Later, after the book’s done, yeah, maybe I’ll try to find out some [...]
Back on October 6, 1990, I was in a crowd of hundreds of people at a dinner in a downtown Chicago hotel for an event honoring the 100th anniversary of [...]
Catholicism is a faith rooted in the senses. It is the smell of incense, the music of chant, the bright brilliance of stained-glass windows, the feel of chrism on the [...]
In the preface to their 2001 Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution, James L. Swanson and Daniel R. Weinberg describe their book in several ways. They write that it is [...]
The words aren’t there on the cover of Postscripts (or Just Desserts), but they jumped out at me when I turned to the title page: “Some Final Scribblings.” That’s not [...]
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 [...]
