The novel After the Fog caught my interest because it’s a rarity—a novel featuring environmental history. Stories of this type are badly underrepresented in literature. As I read, things got even better, subject-wise. The novel turned out to be about a working-class, ethnic family in 1948 Donora, Pennsylvania. This is another type of story badly […]
Tag: Michael Lewis
Pumblechook and Great Expectations
Great Expectations is a very old book and is not, strictly speaking, historical fiction. But it’s a classic, and it has a character named Pumblechook in it, and I’ll write about classics with characters named Pumblechook if I want to. Besides that, I decided it wouldn’t hurt to read how a classic author like Charles […]
Review of The Premonitions, a Pandemic Story
The Premonitions is Michael Lewis’s follow-up to his recent book The Fifth Risk. In fact, one might say that The Fifth Risk required that Lewis write The Premonitions. He wrote The Fifth Risk because he realized that one of the US government’s great tasks was to mitigate the risks of major disasters. Disasters like food […]