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Book Review: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson

Book #208 of 2019: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson This is one of those popular history volumes that’s a deep dive into a fairly narrow topic, and I definitely learned a lot about the shipwreck incident that’s usually rendered as just a sentence or two in the account of …

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Book Review: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson

Book #166 of 2019: The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America by Erik Larson This nonfiction book is partly about the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, and partly about the serial killer H. H. Holmes, who operated his infamous ‘murder castle’ nearby during that same time. Both …

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