Uncommon Reading

In the wake of the slaughter of a dozen people in Paris, ten of whom worked for the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo , by Islamic terrorists...

I don't know why there aren't more mysteries set in Southeast Asia. That said, most of the ones I've sampled, I haven'...

Picking up -- briefly -- on an earlier post about the latest influx of Tudor-focused historical novels: it's not over yet! The latest ...

Every bibliomaniac can empathize with Aaliya, the narrator of Rabih Alameddine's eloquent and simply un-put-downable novel, in her a...

Burma is a democracy nowadays, isn't it? The military junta has given way to an elected parliament, one of which democracy icon Aung...

I confess, I have a crush on Matthew Shardlake. Yes, I know he's a fictional character, and a hunchback, and a lawyer. But, whateve...

Are book publishers just drug pushers in disguise? I sometimes wonder. Certainly, every time I take a step back to look at a list of upcomi...