This weekend’s San Francisco Chronicle features my review of M.T. Anderson’s “The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation Vol. II — The Kingdom on the Waves.”
I was very impressed by the first volume, and I think this concluding installment lives up to everything that has gone before. “Octavian Nothing” truly is a [...]

My Chronicle column has been posted at SFGate.com and will appear in tomorrow’s print edition. It covers three books by writers whose work I always look forward to.
I wasn’t familiar with Jo Walton’s fiction before I started hearing the buzz around “Farthing,” but her trilogy about a fascist Britain is one of the best [...]