PinnedTHE LAST CAUSE: HOW MYTH DEFINES AND DIVIDES AMERICA, or Where Did Fu Manchu Go Wrong?What can classic American myths tell us about the election? Richard Slotkin’s A Great Disorder explains & warns us, as Fu Manchu did in…Nov 3, 2024Nov 3, 2024
IN REMEMBRANCE OF RUFUSMy dog Rufus shared his life with me for almost 15 years. Meet my best boy; I thought we’d be together for almost ever. Now he’s gone…3d ago13d ago1
IT’S LIKE DEJA TRUMP ALL OVER AGAINTrump 2024 feels an awful lot like Trump 2016. Here’s what I wrote for the Times Literary Supplement then, & things aren’t better now.Nov 12, 2024Nov 12, 2024
HALLOWEEN’S POLITICS: Donald Trump’s Three RsWill the US election be decided by voters crippled by emotional arrest? Trump’s three Rs, Rallies, Reality TV & Rasslin, hope it will be.Oct 31, 2024Oct 31, 2024
CITY IN RUINS: DON WINSLOW’S FINAL EPIC TALEDon Winslow’s last novel finishes his retelling of the Aeneid in modern crime fiction terms. A fitting career climax from a great writerMay 3, 2024May 3, 2024
OJ SIMPSON AUCTION: PRICES SLASHEDThe auction of OJ property ordered to help pay the civil judgement in the Brown/Goodman murders was, not surprisingly, a zoo. I was there.Apr 11, 2024Apr 11, 2024
MICHAEL CONNELLY’S RESURRECTION WALKMickey Haller, The Lincoln Lawyer, hires his ex-cop half-brother Harry Bosch to work on the dark side, a free a victim of a police frame upMar 18, 2024Mar 18, 2024
THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION AT SIXTY: STILL HAZY (& CRAZY) AFTER ALL THESE YEARS60 years after JFK’s murder, the story remains untold & the literature with it. Why it’s important not to dismiss it as conspiracy theory”Nov 21, 20232Nov 21, 20232
DAMAR HAMLIN: THE INJURY THAT SHOOK THE SHIELDDamar Hamlin’s injury was a problem, beyond player safety. How the NFL proceeded with football & protected the NFL’s image is revealingJan 7, 2023Jan 7, 2023
L.A.’s Finest: Michael Connelly & Robert Crais Write CrimeLos Angeles crime writers haven’t come any better than Michael Connelly & Robert Crais over the past 35 years. Both have new novels out nowNov 17, 2022Nov 17, 2022
