Shroud by Adrian Tchaikovsky (2025)
Shortly after they discover a small moon that contains what might be galaxy’s most hostile environm…
“Literature” Archives
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My Cultural Diet (June 2025): Godfrey Ho, The Big Bang Theory, Predator, The Decline of Western Civilization
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
The City and Its Uncertain Walls by Haruki Murakami (2024)
With novels like The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle and Sputnik Sweetheart, Haruki Murakami has written som…
Written on the Dark by Guy Gavriel Kay (2025)
When a powerful noble is brutally murdered, the city of Orane is suddenly thrown into chaos. Landin…
The Black Orb by Ewhan Kim (2025)
When giant black orbs suddenly appear in Seoul and begin consuming people, society quickly breaks d…
My Cultural Diet (May 2025): Andor, The Expanse, Once Upon a Time in the West, Love, Death & Robots
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
There Is No Antimemetics Division by Qntm (2025)
Thanks to social media, we all know what memes are: ideas that get stuck in our head and go viral b…
My Cultural Diet (April 2025): Interior Chinatown, The Wild Robot, Princess Mononoke, Slow Horses
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Nemesis (Orphan X, Book Ten) by Gregg Hurwitz (2025)
Another year brings another novel about everyone’s favorite OCD-tortured, vodka-loving ex-governmen…
When the Moon Hits Your Eye by John Scalzi (2025)
If any other author had written When the Moon Hits Your Eye — in which the world grapples with the …
Lightfall (The Everlands Trilogy, Volume One) by Ed Crocker (2025)
Vampires and werewolves and sorcerers, oh my… I’ve never really been much into vampire lit, so I’m …
My Cultural Diet (March 2025): Reacher, Severance, To Live and Die in L.A., Once a Castle, Squid Game
A quick rundown of last month’s cultural experiences.
Once a Castle (The Carrick Hall Novels, Book Two) by Sarah Arthur (2025)
Your fondness for C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia will likely determine how much you enjoy Once a …
Slow Dance by Rainbow Rowell (2024)
Shiloh and Cary were best friends in high school. They were so close, in fact, that everyone assume…
The Pool of Fire (The Tripods, Book Three) by John Christopher (1968)
In the final Tripods novel, young Will Parker and his comrades take their final stand against the M…
The City of Gold and Lead (The Tripods, Book Two) by John Christopher (1967)
The second Tripods novel finds Will Parker and his comrades attempting to infiltrate the titular ci…
The Problem of Neil Gaiman
It’s only right and fair that we should want our favorite artists to be decent men and women. But what if they’re not?
The White Mountains (The Tripods, Book One) by John Christopher (1967)
This is one of my wife’s favorite childhood books, and she’s read it multiple times with our kids a…
The Exiled Fleet by J. S. Dewes (2021)
I read J. S. Dewes’ The Last Watch back in 2022 and enjoyed it well enough. I knew it was the first…
Kaitlyn Schiess’s The Ballot and the Bible Reveals the Complex History of Biblical Interpretation and American Politics (Review)
Kaitlyn Schiess argues that religion and politics have been inextricably intertwined since America’s founding, and even before that.