by Philip Rafferty | Oct 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Psychology
Huffington Post Blogger, Astrophysicist, and all around curious guy, Mario Livio is the author of five previous books on physics, mathematics, as well as over 400 scientific articles. Why? What Makes Us Curious is his first foray into the world of popular...
by Philip Rafferty | Aug 28, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Mystery, Crime & Thriller
Harry Hole is back. I repeat, Harry Hole is back. For everyone out there worried that he wouldn’t return, worry no more. Jo Nesbo is the king of Nordic noir. If one person could be said to have put Scandinavian crime fiction on the map, it is Nesbo. His...
by Philip Rafferty | Aug 14, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
The World To Come is Jim Shepard’s latest collection of short stories that are all epic historical pieces that perform unimaginable feats of storytelling in the small space of a short story. The book is the latest from the author, whose four previous works all...
by Philip Rafferty | May 3, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Days Without End, Sebastian Barry’s Costa Award winning 9th novel, is a visceral and lyrical western that is traditional only in the sense that there are horses and Indians. Barry’s strength is how he uses non-traditional tropes to tell the story of America. Each page...
by Philip Rafferty | Apr 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than fifty-five plays and three short story collections. As an actor, he has been in over sixty films and was nominated in 1984 for an Academy Award for his role in The Right Stuff. The One Inside is...