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  HALLOWEEN’S POLITICS: Donald Trump’s Three Rs                                     Donald J Trump at Madison Square Garden  A few days ag...

My obituary of Joe Galloway, one of America's foremost reporters of the Vietnam War, is in today's Guardian, for those of us who pre...

I've published my review of Norwegian novelist Helene Flood's engrossing first crime novel, The Therapist, you can link to that at m...

 My obit of Mike Gravel, the Alaska senator who read the Pentagon Papers on the Senate floor, is online at the Guardian now; it should be in...

  In 1994, a brutal quadruple-murder shook the seaside resort town of Orphea, in the tony Hamptons on Long Island. The body of a jogger was ...

 My review of TJ Newman's highest of high concept thrillers, Falling, has just been published at Medium. You can link to it avoiding the...

My obit of F Lee Bailey is in today's Guardian; it went online yesterday and you can link to that here . The paper had hoped for a somew...

I've written a review at Medium, nominally about an Arne Dahl Intercrime novel, but more about the place of Scandinavian crime fiction a...

I am in the process of assembling a collection of poems, and going through some which I hadn't really looked at in some time. In some ca...

No, it's not a book about golf. Instead, it's early on a sunny Tuesday morning when Erin Kennedy wakes up next to her husband Danny....

My obituary of G Gordon Liddy, the Nixon plumber of Watergate renown, who after getting out of prison turned into a right-wing showman with ...

My obituary of Larry McMurtry is online now at the Guardian, you can link to it here . It should be in the paper paper soon. It has been cut...