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Tuesday, September 22, 2026
The German Genius: Europe’s Third Renaissance, the Second Scientific Revolution, and the Twentieth Century by Peter Watson
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A quarter millennium of rich intellectual history reassessed British historian, novelist, and journalist Peter Watson has published over...
Monday, September 21, 2026
The Great Return by Arthur Machen
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An underdeveloped quickie by an otherwise great author Welsh author Arthur Machen (1863–1947) is a respected old-school master of the fan...
Friday, September 18, 2026
Penguin Island by Anatole France
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Satire in the tradition of Voltaire The French writer Anatole France (1884–1924) won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Literature. His novel Pengui...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026
Mathematical Puzzles by Martin Gardner
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An early collection of brain teasing quickies Martin Gardner was a popular and prolific nonfiction author of the latter half of the twent...
Monday, September 14, 2026
Reeds and Mud by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
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Compelling Spanish regional naturalism Reeds and Mud , a novel by Spanish author Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, was originally published in 1902 ...
Friday, September 11, 2026
No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy
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McCarthy does Elmore Leonard Few American authors garnered as much critical acclaim over the last half century as Cormac McCarthy (1933–2...
Wednesday, September 9, 2026
The Green Hills of Earth by Robert A. Heinlein
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The mundane aspects of space exploration American science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein wrote a series of roughly two dozen short sto...
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