Milam's Musings

Reading journalist Lawrence Wright's 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, one is left with the sad conclusion that 9/11 could have been prevented, if only the alphabet soup of U.S. agencies worked better toge…

To be a woman existing in a system designed by men for men, which necessarily means the justice system working as intended for men, shielding them from consequences, is to be furious almost all the time.

Foer's book explores grief as an urban artifact to be unearthed, a grief so intimate to the person excavating, but in a particularly unique way, it's also bound up in collective grief.

While a well-used formula for Foley at this point, I still can't resist a whodunit with characters contained in one space, each with their own motive for being a killer.

Chewable in one-sitting like its namesake, Newman's book is like that Cuban sandwich I had at my first job 15 years ago when they tried evening hours and dinner food: something I'll be thinking about for a long time to come.

Hulk Hogan still matters, perhaps most powerfully as a cautionary tale about what happens when artifice becomes edifice.

Part religious rebellion, part tantalizing Twilight-inspired true romance, and part Bonnie and Clyde, Winstead's thrilling book is difficult to put in a convenient genre box, but that makes it all the more compelling as a story, and fitting with our two p…

Legal thrillers are like catnip for me, but throw in the race and gender power dynamics inherent to the Deep South and a hot button issue like abortion, and it's a no-brainer why this ended up being one of my sneaky favorite reads of the year.

The Housemaid was more predictable than I expected it to be given McFadden's trademark twists, but I thoroughly enjoyed the ride, nonetheless.

I thought Cooney's second outing topped his first; the maturation of a writer, not only with a definite vision of the story he wants to tell, but who is absolutely having fun telling it.