If You Can Make it There

New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson In the not-so-distant future the oceans of the world rose and mankind had to make a few changes. But life, even in the face of massive ecological changes, goes on much as it has. In New York City (the so-called “Super...

Over There

The Harlem Hellfighters by Max Brooks, Illustrated by Caanan White. On June 29, 1916 the 15th New York Infantry Regiment was organized. They left for France on December 27th, 1917. They were re-designated the 369th Infantry on March 1, 1918 and on April 8, were...

CSI: Old School

The Poisoner’s Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York by Deborah Blum.Before Gil Grissom first looked down a microscope in Las Vegas, before Temperance Brennan dug up bones in Montreal there was Charles Norris and Alexander...