HNR Issue 66 (November 2013)
Upton Sinclair: California Socialist, Celebrity Intellectual
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Perhaps you’ve seen the bumper sticker: “If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.” Upton Sinclair was paying attention. This ...Read Review
Repast: Dining Out at the Dawn of the New American Century 1900-1910
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One of my favorite digital galleries on the New York Public Library website has always been the Buttolph Menu Collection. Containing menus from ...Read Review
The Windsor Faction
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It is the first few months of the Second World War, and the British are in that curiously suspended situation, wondering when, if ...Read Review
Gods of the Steppe
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This novel is part coming-of-age story for a 12-year-old boy, and part critique of a mining operation near a remote village in the ...Read Review
Death at the Clos du Lac
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Picardie, 1964. At the exclusive – and reclusive – Clos du Lac sanatorium, a grisly discovery is made in the swimming pool, triggering another case for ...Read Review
Eight Girls Taking Pictures
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Whitney Otto’s novel, Eight Girls Taking Pictures, points the camera at the lives of eight photographers, women who live out the juxtaposition ...Read Review
The Little Tokyo Informant
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September 1941, and J. Edgar Hoover is preoccupied with using Hollywood to promote the image of the FBI. To this end, he has appointed ...Read Review
The Shogun’s Daughter
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The Shogun’s daughter has died a victim of smallpox, and with her the possibility of an heir. But all is not lost! ...Read Review
Saxon: The Emperor’s Elephant
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The Saxon of the title is Sigwulf, a minor Saxon prince exiled to the court of King Carolus. It is the second in ...Read Review
Lover be Mine
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New York Times bestselling author Jordan plans to follow five aristocratic Wilde cousins in Regency England to their true mates. This second book ...Read Review
