I’ve meant to read Jan Yolen since I was a kid. I owned at least one of her books for decades, but somehow this is the first… Read more “Book Review: Sea Queens”
Category: History
Book Review: Kirby: King of Comics
Written by a former Jack Kirby assistant, Mark Evanier, who himself has a long history in the industry, this biography also serves as something of a history… Read more “Book Review: Kirby: King of Comics”
Tabletop RPG Review: The Children of Fear
I believe this is the first big campaign for the 7th edition of Call of Cthulhu. There were two previous Pulp Cthulhu campaigns, and this has the… Read more “Tabletop RPG Review: The Children of Fear”
Book Review: 111 Places in Women’s History (in Washington, DC) that You Must Not Miss
Full disclosure, my wife co-authored this book, so I can’t claim to be impartial. Washington, DC is my adopted home city. I moved to the area more… Read more “Book Review: 111 Places in Women’s History (in Washington, DC) that You Must Not Miss”
Book Review: War Plan Red
I grew up just a few hours from the Canadian border. I had family in Canada, and my own Grandfather was Canadian by birth. I always knew… Read more “Book Review: War Plan Red”
Book Review: The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!
This is a short book with a ton of illustrations, but I think it gets the job done. It looks at the Great War through the eyes… Read more “Book Review: The Huns Have Got my Gramophone!”
Comic Review: The Harlem Hellfighters
I have to admit, I was not expecting Max Brooks’s follow up to World War Z to be a historical fiction graphic novel about World War I,… Read more “Comic Review: The Harlem Hellfighters”
Book Review: The Truth About Lies
By turns fascinating and depressing, Aja Raden’s book explores lies and subterfuge from biological to sociological. Animals survive because they camouflage themselves as other things and humans… Read more “Book Review: The Truth About Lies”
Book Review: A Very Dangerous Woman
“It was no doubt easier to believe in the ultimate rightness of the cause when one was no longer likely to be its next victim.” It… Read more “Book Review: A Very Dangerous Woman”
Book Review: Ace of Spies
Sometime around 1990 or so, my local PBS channel played the 1983 British mini-series ‘Reilly: Ace of Spies.’ I was absolutely captivated. Sam Neill was awesome. The… Read more “Book Review: Ace of Spies”
Matthew J. Constantine 