A Gambling Man

A portrait of a king (Charles II) and his era (the Restoration) as rich and delightful as Uglow's earlier The Lunar Men. History does not get much more absorbing than this.

May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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