Empress Dowager Cixi
Empress Dowager Cixi, The Concubine Who Launched Modern China by Jung Chang The daughter of a government worker, Empress Dowager Cixi was not an heir to the throne of China […]
Empire of Pain
Empire of Pain by Patrick Radden Keefe If you read Keefe’s 2017 article in The New Yorker about the slippery Sackler family, then you must read his book about the […]
Emma Lathen
Emma Lathen Mystery Novels When allergies got the best of me earlier this month, I holed up for a few days with a dozen Emma Lathen mystery novels featuring amateur […]
Eighteen Acres
Eighteen Acres by Nicolle Wallace Crimes of a different nature are exposed in Nicolle Wallace’s novel, Eighteen Acres, White House staffers’ name for their place of employment. Wallace, a bona […]
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk Recommended by my literary friend Laurel, this novel by Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Noble Prize […]
Double Cross
Double Cross by Ben Macintyre Those wacky MI5 British intelligence offices are at it again in Ben Macintyre’s latest book Double Cross. Like his earlier novel Operation Mincemeat, Macintyre relays […]
Factory Man
Factory Man by Beth Macy Being a Bassett of Bassett furniture fame was a good gig for a lot of years. As long as you could stomach working for one […]
Dopesick
Dopesick by Beth Macy The opioid epidemic is a multi-faceted problem, but in her latest book, Dopesick, Beth Macy explores how-we-got here, starting with the introduction of OxyContin by Purdue […]
Diary of a Provincial Lady
Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield Published in 1930, Diary of a Provincial Lady is the gently satiric fictional diary of an upper-middle-class lady living in a Devonshire […]
Deep Down Dark
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Story of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar If you were alive in August […]