Niklas reviews

Niklas reviews

Niklas reads books and reviews them here.

Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'

Laurence Rees - 'Hitler's Charisma'

Terrific writing from a masterful historian makes this another great addition to the pantheon of books about World War II and human nature.

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Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’

Will McPhail – ‘In - A Graphic Novel’

This is a masterpiece about the human condition, in graphic-novel form.

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William Zinsser - 'On Writing Well'

William Zinsser - 'On Writing Well'

This style guide has sold over a million copies and is useful for writers of all sorts.

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Excerpts from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 'Dreamland'

Excerpts from Rosa Rankin-Gee's 'Dreamland'

Some quotes that I collected from this wondrously human book.

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Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'

Rosa Rankin-Gee - 'Dreamland'

My review of this beautiful semi-fictional novel.

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Radden Patrick Keefe - 'Empire of Pain'

Radden Patrick Keefe - 'Empire of Pain'

My review of Keefe's brilliant dissection of the Sackler opioid-epidemic legacy.

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The tragedy in what happened to Martha West

The tragedy in what happened to Martha West

An excerpt from Patrick Radden Keefe's brilliant 'Empire of Pain', a book about the Sackler legacy of death.

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Tom Roston - 'The Writer's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'

Tom Roston - 'The Writer's Crusade, Kurt Vonnegut and the Many Lives of Slaughterhouse-Five'

Youthfully sprawled but too free, a somewhat interesting portrait of Vonnegut's masterpiece.

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