Andrew Diamond

This is the book from which Jim Morrison’s band took its name.

In the Café of Lost Youth opens in the Condé café in Paris in the 1950s.

Coming from Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy to Bertrand Russel’s A History of Western Philosophy is an interesting transition.

For those of you who don’t know, when I’m not writing novels, I spend my days as a software engineer, writing code.

Ross Macdonald’s 1951 novel, The Way Some People Die, is the first book in the Library of America’s Ross Macdonald Collection.

Nolen Gertz’s Nihilism is part of MIT Press’ Essential Knowledge Series, which includes books about citizenship, waves and the mind-body problem as well a number of less essential topics such as cloud computing, open access and school choice.

I first read The Problem of Pain back in 2024.

James Ross’ country noir, They Don’t Dance Much, published in 1940, takes place in and around Corinth, North Carolina, around the year 1939.

Philip K.

Leader writes of Western Culture’s current failures to define and treat madness.

A Shining Affliction is Annie G.

San Quentin Exodus opens with Allison Anderson surveying the walls of one of California’s most infamous prisons, wondering if her escape plan will work.

When Jesse Jackson was running for president in the 1988 Democratic primaries, I was twenty years old and excited to vote for him.

Okay, since no one asked, today I’m going to write about motorcycles.

Megan Abbott’s novel is set in late 1940s Hollywood, during the studios’ golden era.

I give this book five stars not because it’s deep or life-changing.

I found this book by chance while browsing the shelves of a used bookstore.

Molly is Blake Butler’s attempt to understand his marriage to fellow writer Molly Brodak, who suffered from borderline personality disorder and died by suicide at age thirty-nine.

Dorothy B.

Melanie Agnanos’ Nightswimming opens in the early hours of a cold January night in Paterson, New Jersey, in 1979.

Don Carpenter’s first novel Hard Rain Falling, is almost as bleak as a book can be.

New York, winter, 1966, 4:00 a.m.

My wife bought me this book after I started reading about Buddhism and riding a motorcycle.

In 2017, Syndicate Books published the collected works of Margaret Millar.

In The Girl Goes Home, book four of the Emily Calby series, we catch up with twenty-four-year-old Emily as she is launching her legal career in Memphis.

Davis has just lost his wife, Rachel.

Randall Grange, the main character of J.

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This is a thoughtful and well done translation of the second edition of Pinel’s treatise, which is generally known in English as the Treatise on Insanity.

John and Rae Ingram are on their honeymoon, sailing across the Pacific towards Tahiti in their private ketch, Saracen.

A good book leaves you with lots of questions.

Fredric Brown’s 1962 crime novel, The Murderers, takes place in Los Angeles around 1960.

Meredith Angwin’s Shorting the Grid primarily covers what the author calls “the policy grid.”

This book describes the history of the US power grid and how technology, regulation, politics and demand shaped it into what it is today.

Black Rednecks and White Liberals is a collection of six essays by American economist and social philosopher Thomas Sowell.

Ava Gardner, The Secret Conversations, is a book about a writer trying to write a book about Ava Gardner.

Fourteen-year-old Mattie Ross sets out to avenge the murder of her father in 1880s Arkansas.

IndieReader announced its 2024 Discovery Award winners yesterday, and The Sellout topped the list in the humor category.

This book is a classic among fans of hard-boiled crime fiction.

I’m not sure why this book is called The Beach Girls.

The Courage to Be Disliked is an introduction to Adlerian psychology in the form of a Socratic dialog.

In 1945, an Egyptian peasant discovered a huge clay jar just beneath the soil near a cliff in Nag Hammadi, Egypt.

Note: This review contains spoilers, outlining most of the plot.

This is one of the best novels I’ve ever read.

Having just read Jean Hanff Korelitz’ The Plot, I found this book to be a difficult slog indeed.

This is an exceedingly clever novel.

The Tenth Man opens in a German prison near the end of World War II.

In Laura Lippman’s Dream Girl, sixty-one-year-old author Gerry Andersen has an accident that leaves him bedridden and heavily sedated for three months.

Martian Time-Slip, published in 1964, takes place on Mars in the late 1990s.

Lucy Graham is a twenty-two-year-old children’s governess in the home of a respected Essex surgeon.