PinnedAT MOUNT RUSHMOREOne Sunday evening in 2017, I took my son to see Mount Rushmore. The monument’s approach had been taken over by MAGA, shouting for TrumpAug 14, 2022Aug 14, 2022
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 12Nov 12
THE 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 3Nov 3
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 31Oct 31
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 3May 3
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 11Apr 11
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 18Mar 18
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
