Year: 2004

I have always been jealous of one particular aspect of being a magazine editor: assigning books to specific authors. Wouldn’t it be cool if you could just...

You may wonder why I went back to 2002 for Charlie Stella’s novel JIMMY BENCHPRESS. I’ve wanted to read the man’s work for some time and this ...

It is an ugly rainy day here in Ohio. I am unmotivated and uninspired (hence the lack of posting). In the off chance that someone stops by looking for entertain...

Those of you interested in the question of the existence of God, the role of morality and religion in society, or the intellectual history of these questions wi...

Those of you interested in the question of the existence of God, the role of morality and religion in society, or the intellectual history of these questions wi...

I just finished DEATH OF A NATIONALIST, Rebecca Pawel’s debut novel. Set in Madrid in 1939, the story revolves around the murder of a Guardia Civil, who m...