In another Calvin Trillin book of small stories and poems, "Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin", there was a two pager about a man s...

David Mitchell holds a dim view of mankind's treatment of the planet and how that is likely to turn out badly.  That view directs the ...

I am not a fan of zombies.  Dead people who are hungry but don't eat each other and can run faster in death than when they were alive?...

General Hayden is a past director of both the NSA and CIA while the country was undergoing changes in the intelligence community under pre...

Murakami novels have been in the blog before, but for those who've not read one, it's helpful to understand what underlies many of...

Learned men right up to the early 1900's thought that powered flight was an unattainable goal.  That thinking did not stop some men fr...

  Time travel stories can be fun.  Normally someone goes back in time once or more times and consequences often are revealed in the curre...

   A neighbor recommended this book, saying it was a word-of-mouth best seller in Europe.  It took a while for me to get the book and ...