3 New Thrillers to Read

BETTER DEAD      In  1983, Max Allan Collins created a brand new sub-genre, something very few writers have ever done. …

Posted on October 10, 2024 Writer and poet Han Kang has been awarded The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2024.…

Ian Johnson In his novel Cat Country, Lao She produced one of the most remarkable, perplexing, and prophetic works of modern China. On one level it is a work of science fiction—a visit to a country of cat-like people on Mars—that lampoons 1930s China. On a deeper level, the work predicts the terror and violence of the early Communist era and the chaos and brutality that led to Lao She’s own death during the Cultural Revolution. Cat Country is often called a dystopian novel, but when Lao She took his own life, it was an uncannily accurate portrait of the