Review of You Are Here
/Steve Donoghue digs into Donald Breckenridge's stylistically arresting "You Are Here"
Read MoreReview of Patient Zero
/"Patient Zero is full of sharp dialogue, rapid-fire action, fascinating (and, the author somewhat disturbingly promises us, entirely fact-based) patho-science, and a wide array of deftly drawn characters."
Read MoreA Review of A Naked Singularity
/If a book of this unsettling oddness and power can be found, virtually at random, on the lists of one self-publish print-on-demand outfit, we might well lie awake wondering what else we're missing, out there in the sprawling infinitude of computers and ISBNs.
Read MoreReview of Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
/In his review of, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Steve Donoghue explains why this book might make you want to "punch" the author...
Read MoreBefore Nightfall
/Just as we approach the time when there will be no more living witnesses to the Second World War, Richard Evans concludes his monumental three-volume Nazi history with The Third Reich at War. Steve Donoghue makes record of the results.
Read MoreGuide: The Aeneid of Vergil
/Virgil’s Aeneid has been attracting translators for centuries, and Sarah Ruden’s rendering is notable in more ways than one. (She calls him Vergil, for one thing, but that’s just the start.) Steve Donoghue regards her efforts in the latest “A Year with the Romans.”
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