Twenty million soldiers and civilians were killed during the First World War. Another twenty million were wounded. Among the wounded were...

Studies indicate that 20% of Iraq and Afghanistan vets suffer from PTSD. In addition, vets account for roughly 20% of all suicides in the...

In Ancient Greece, when a village or city was beset by plague or drought or other great ill, often the citizenry would ritually sacrifice...

If you walked ten hours a day, it would take you about 100 days to walk from New York City to San Francisco. At 19,000 miles, the...

On October 1, 1788, Deacon Brodie was hanged at the Old Tolbooth in Edinburgh, Scotland, on a gallows he himself designed and built....

In 393 CE, Emperor Theodosius the Great—the one who made Nicene Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire—banned the pagan...

About seven years ago, a team of MIT scientists put a mouse in a box. The mouse immediately panicked, thinking it was about to get an...

It’s possible it’s all my fault. This. 2020. The whole mess. You see, in the spring of 2019, I re-read The Stand, by Stephen King, and...

They say if you’re an author, don’t read the reviews of your books. Every author, including myself, ignores that piece of advice, and...

In the summer of 1556, a man strolled into the village of Artigat in southern France claiming to be Martin Guerre, who had left town,...

Jack Reacher novels are like pizza. Even when they’re soggy, or mass produced, or too thin, or too thick, or just plain bad, they’re...

The first rule of Fight Club, yada yada yada. We all know how it goes. Which is not to say it isn’t worth reading. Fight Club, by Chuck...

Best Served Cold, by Joe Abercrombie, is what happens when The Princess Bride gets drunk on Jack Daniel’s and goes out at 3AM looking to...

In Raven’s Sphere, by Melissa Koberlein, teenage thief Raven is on the run from her past, as well as the authorities. To get away even...

“There are no good guys in the world of shadows … but maybe some bad men are better than others.” So goes the hook for Esoterrorism, by...

Zoe’s Tale, by John Scalzi, is the 4th book in the Old Man’s War series. It’s literally the same events that occur in The Last Colony,...

The first Pogach Review where I talk about Binti, by Nnedi Okorafor