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  • Review: Saylor’s Roman Blood

    Roman Blood: A Novel of Ancient Rome (Novels of Ancient Rome) Steven Saylor Roman Blood is a fun little mystery set in the last days of the Roman Republic. The book is modeled on the actual killing of Sextus Roscius and Cicero’s defense of his son for the crime. Saylor has taken many a liberty…

  • Review: Crimethinc’s Days of War, Nights of Love

    Days of War, Nights of Love: Crimethink For Beginners Crimethinc. Crimethinc. All the rage in 2000, largely forgotten now. Of all the things they did (newspapers, magazines, other books) this was the best. A pretty clear indictment of late capitalism in America and a call to live life fully. Of course, eating out of dumpsters…

  • Review: Bey’s Temporary Autonomous Zones (T.A.Z.)

    TAZ: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism (Autonomedia New Autonomy Series) Hakim Bey Hakim Bey is, probably, patient zero of the lifestyle anarchist school of thought. We can trace back to this New York eccentric much that came later in the 1990s and 2000s, including Crimethinc anrcho-primitivism, think pieces on Burning Man and…

  • Review: Dufourmentelle’s Negri on Negri

    Negri on Negri: in conversation with Anne Dufourmentelle Antoni Negri and Anne Dufourmentelle Antonio Negri – seventies radical reborn in the early 2000s as darly of the left with his massive theoretical work on the nature of late capitalism and resistance to it (Empire and Multitude). He’s one of the few fashionable Marxists that one…

  • Review: Cohen’s Book of Numbers

    Book of Numbers: A Novel Joshua Cohen A new addition to the burgeoning genre of MFA writers try their hand at thrillers. A diverting read about a failing young writer (name Joshua Cohen) who is hired to write the biography of a mysterious and eccentric Silicon Valley billionaire (also named Joshua Cohen) whose company may…

  • Review: Stephenson’s Seveneves

    Seveneves: A Novel Neil Stephenson Neil Stephenson is among my favorite authors, and my number one go-to dude for popular fiction. His writing is clear, his characters well developed, and his research top of the line. He is one of the few authors whose books I buy no questions asked, as soon as they come…

  • Review: McDougall’s Natural Born Heroes

    Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance Christopher McDougall The second book by Christopher McDougall, the author of the bestselling, and controversial, Born To Run, this book attempts to cover the guerilla war on the Island of Crete during WWII, parkour, and high fat diets.…

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    Review: Swanson’s Manhunt

    Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer (P.S.) James Swanson I am an American male who has reached middle age. This means I must read at least one civil war related book a year for the next twenty-five years. This year, I read this gripping account of Lincoln’s assassination, the flight of his killers, and…

  • Review: McCarry’s Miernik Dossier

    The Miernik Dossier Charles McCarry A clever spy novel written as a series of dossiers from the various spies and spy agencies tied up in a confused cold war battle for influence. All the classic spy novel motifs are here: betrayals both political and personal, glamourous and troubled women, troubled and glamorous men, sex, booze,…

  • Review: Morrison’s God Help the Child

    God Help the Child: A novel Toni Morrison A minor work by a major author, this slim book by one of the greatest American novelists  is beautiful and haunting. It moves back and forth from the allegorical to the realistic tracing the story of Bride, a wounded child who grows into a celebrated, but wounded…