Not to be confused with Edward Bellamy’s fine novel, I stand at the cusp between 2019 and the 2020, the new decade of the new millennium. Looking backward, as my favorite book critic Dwight Garner writes in his latest “Critic’s Notebook” in The New York Times, about the year gone by and what, for him, […]
Today was my birthday and the best present I got was Trump’s impeachment. I know it won’t get passed in the Senate, but he’s been wounded, and that’s a good start toward his losing re-election. The wound has already brought out his true colors – black and blue and mad as hell. The six-page letter […]
I’m not mad for sci-fi, but I always am for a good story, well told. Cixin Liu is a masterful storyteller, and The Three-Body Problem was for me a totally enthralling story, from the first page to the last. Although first published in 2006, The Three-Body Problem was not translated and published in English until […]
El Paso, Texas, experienced one of the most horrific hate crime slaughters in our nation’s history. Twenty-two people were killed and another twenty or more, primarily Hispanics, were gunned down by Patrick Crusius, 21 years old. Wikipedia states, “It is the deadliest mass shooting in the United States in 2019, the seventh deadliest since 1949, and the third […]
No book review this week. Instead, please click here to see my new post. https://jackboston.com/days-of-anarchy-days-of-entropy/
In case you haven’t been paying attention, there’s a lot of anarchy going around these days. Don’t take my word for it: The Wall Street Journal reports, “Four months on, antigovernment demonstrations have swept more than a dozen countries. From Chile and Bolivia to Lebanon and Spain, millions have taken to the streets—sometimes peacefully, often not.” Hong Kong unrest is clearly at […]
Kate Atkinson, how is it your novels have gone missing from my bookshelves for so long? While staying at a friend’s maison in France, I happened upon your novel, One Good Turn, and was captivated from the first pages. You have a wit, a writing elan, that makes reading this book as enjoyable as sitting […]