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It’s hard to imagine, especially for those of my generation or younger, but broadcast news was not always a wasteland of vacuous celebrity gossip, shallow political “analysis”, or crude sensationalism. There was in fact a…
The nice thing about reading a book prior to seeing a subsequent cinematic adaption is that you can go in fresh, with no notions or expectations. So when I picked up a copy of Robin…
Chris Holmes reviews Timothy Egan’s work about the Midwestern United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl – The Worst Hard Time.…
I’ve been a James Bond fan since I was a kid, when I rented just about every Bond film available (actually my mom rented them, but whatever) and spent countless hours absorbing them. But for…
Having only read one other Anne Rice novel (you guessed it, Interview With the Vampire), I learned some interesting things about her from reading her beefy 1990 tome, The Witching Hour. I learned that she…
Chris Holmes reviews Single & Single, a 1999 crime novel by Cold War-era author John le Carré. It’s as close to a spy novel as you can get without spies.…
There are some names in literature that for some reason intimidate me before I even read a word of their work. Since I’m not a voracious reader I think I have a tendency to put…
Having recently read the magnificent spy epic The Company for the third or fourth time, I decided it was finally time to explore some of Robert Littell’s other works. So for no particular reason I…
GFS reviews Frederick Forsyth’s 1972 novel The ODESSA File, about the hunt for the infamous Nazi concentration camp commander Eduard Roschmann.…