Sentence of Dave

The only thing better than a Craig Johnson Longmire mystery with all the usual fixin's-- the vast and desolate landscape of Wyoming, a w...

If I were to choose one genre-- and only one-- that I would have to read and watch for the rest of my life, I think it would be science-fict...

I was determined NOT to do "Dry January" for two very good reasons— 1)I’m already a moderate drinker  2) January is so dark, cold,...

The answer to the titular question is: the wych elm in the garden of Ivy house, the one keeping a sordid secret-- but it's going to take...

If you think  Lord of the Flies  is a bit tame and y ou want a book where the kids  really  go bonkers then check out Cixin Liu's  Super...

The Age of Illusions: How America Squandered Its Cold War Victory by Andrew Bacevich addresses the question asked by Rabbit Angstrom in John...

If you want to read a totally fucked up book about a disgraced knight trying to protect a sanctified child in the bleakest of settings-- pla...

A Head Full of Ghosts , by Paul Tremblay, is a genuinely scary (and very transparent) pastiche of Shirley Jackson's We Have Always Lived...

Robert B. Parker's fourth Spenser novel, Promised Land , is more about relationships than crime, and I should warn you: there's quit...

Mortal Stakes -- the third book in Robert B. Parker's Spenser series-- is about things I love: athletics, the ethics of sports, a confli...

  If you lived through the 1970s, but were too young to remember much of it-- aside from the absurd commercials and network TV-- then this e...

Robert B. Parker's first two Spenser mysteries-- The Godwulf Manuscript  and God Save the Child -- will give you a perspective on crime ...

Another end of the year book list . . . yuck . . . so let me boil it down to something practical. First some boilerplate: I read a bunch of ...

Over the past year, my friend (and fellow philosophy teacher) Stacey did something rather remarkable. I'm going to let her tell her stor...

My take on Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt's new book The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting...

Someday, I will tell the story of Pip and the Mace (it's set in Daytona, circa 1991 . . . a classic) but while today's post is about...

I often have a sinking sensation--  when I am stuck in traffic or taking a hot shower on a cold day or eating take-out food with disposable ...

Many liberals believe we need the government to protect us from the power of corporations and corporate lobbying, and many conservatives bel...

The new David Sedaris memoir/essay collection  Calypso  is darker and perhaps more candid and sincere than anything he's written previo...

I finished two powerful and poignant books (and thoroughly enjoyed both) on vacation that hammered home the exact reason you go on vacation-...