Thoughts on Writing Noir Crime

The dark side of human nature, the hypocritical posturing of empathy and goodwill while secretly harboring anger and resentments derived from a stew of the Seven Deadly Sins. Even good deeds have a self-aggrandizing aspect—social esteem, feelings of...

Book Review: Berlin Walls by Bill Rapp

On the day before my eighteenth birthday in 1961, East Germany’s construction of the Berlin Wall—which physically and symbolically further separated the burgeoning Soviet empire from the West—burst into the headlines. Soviet Russia’s 1949 acquisition of the atomic...