Category: reviews
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Rubenstein’s When Jesus Became God
When Jesus Became God: The Struggle to Define Christianity during the Last Days of Rome Richard E. Rubenstein From the modern perspective it is hard to understand how amorphous the early Christian movements were. In the first few hundred years after the death of Christ, much of what we now take for granted as pillars…
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Schmahmann’s The Double Life of Alfred Buber
The Double Life of Alfred Buber I received this as a review copy from the Permanent Press, an excellent independent publisher based in New York. The Permanent Press is one of only a few literary independent publishers left who take the chance to publish serious novels by little known writers. I admire that. And I…
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Ellroy’s The Cold Six Thousand
The Cold Six Thousand is the second volume of Ellroy’s “Underworld Trilogy” tracing the history of 1960s America through the lives of real and imagined gangsters. Written in an intense staccato style, the books are filled with conspiracies, bad men behaving horribly, and real and imagined dirt on most of the pivotal figures of the…
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Crime in the City – Mosley’s the Long Fall
The Long Fall Walter Mosley Crime novels are very grounded in place. George Pelacanos’s novels sing of DC; Laura Lippman’s of Baltimore of Los Angeles, and until recently, Walter Mosley’s most famous crime novels were set in Watts. For the last decade of so the heavy hitters of crime fiction have mostly been avoiding New…
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Review: Black Sun by Goodrich-Clarke
Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism, and the Politics of Identity Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke This is the first time two people associated with Fox Hill are writing a review of the same book, and, of course, its got to be a book about esoteric Hitler cults. We really aren’t this weird people – honest. Charm laid…
Milo and the Calf 