book review

America’s former horror master Stephen King has been striking out a lot lately, and not just on Twitter. I recently read one of his latest novels, Billy Summers, and was struck by what it revealed: an author trying to replay his greatest…

In “Love Me Fierce In Danger: The Life of James Ellroy,” Steven Powell has produced an uneven account of a writer who is equal parts a profane and politically incorrect performance artist and a talented novelist. The reader comes away from…

“Many years ago I realized that a book, a novel, is a dream that asks itself to be written in the same way we fall in love with someone.” That’s the opening of “The Shards,” Bret Easton Ellis’s first novel in over a decade. And just as…

Spencer Klavan’s “How To Save the West: Ancient Wisdom for 5 Modern Crises” is simply not what I was expecting. It impressed me at every turn. I don’t know why – maybe because of the provocative title, maybe because I associate Klavan with…

In the days leading up to Texas federal Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on a lawsuit seeking to revoke U.S. government approval of abortion drug mifepristone, the Washington Post ran a front-page feature (read: hit piece) on him. It is not…

A governor of a highly populous Western state has erected billboards adorned with a verse from the Bible in other states advocating for specific policy positions. A U.S. senator running for reelection equates voting to “a kind of prayer for…

Ever since Ted Cruz became a U.S. senator in 2012, originally riding the wave of the Tea Party grassroots conservative movement, he has won many fans. He’s an outspoken conservative who’s willing to confront the rampant corruption and…

When Yeonmi Park made the courageous decision to flee North Korea at the age of 13, she couldn’t have imagined the life that awaited her. After enduring the barbarity of North Korea’s ruling regime, unspeakable acts of sexual violence as…

“He always comes at night, she’d said.” Is “he” a ghost, a memory, or something more real? That’s the crux of Kat Rosenfield’s new mystery thriller, “You Must Remember This,” where the present intertwines with the past, and the dangers of…

In his 11th thesis in his famous “Theses on Feuerbach” (1888), Karl Marx famously said, “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” This phrase has been interpreted in several…