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
THE LONG SAD SLIDE OF SHEDEUR SANDERSShedeur Sanders, Neon Deion Sanders’ son, was predicted to be an NFL Draft top pick. 143 other players went before him. What was this…May 10May 10
MURDERS IN THE MIDNIGHT STREETS OF LONDON1929 Soho: private eye George Harley works the dark streets of Soho searching for a child-killer & keeping clear of local gangsters & copsMar 16Mar 16
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…Jan 181Jan 181
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
