November 2026 – Perfidy Press

Recent Posts from Perfidy Press Blog

Blue Wave v. Nerd Reich

November 5, 2026

There was a warm southeasterly breeze Wednesday […]

Grandfather Cause

October 22, 2026

As it’s the season for telling ghost stories, […]

Fiddling Around after Torching America

September 18, 2026

We needn’t wait for AIs to destroy us. Donald […]

Mimetics for Dummies

August 16, 2026

Read Online Being a writer and all I enjoy keeping up […]

Ticking Off the Government

July 27, 2026

A Guide for the Perplexed Taxpayer Read Online […]

Help! Hive Been Co-opted

June 26, 2026

Read Online For more than a century, science fiction […]

Google Wants to Be Your Friend

May 30, 2026

View Online No wonder Google long ago abandoned […]

What am I doing here?

April 13, 2026

Read Online Specifically, why do I spend what’s […]

Not just the facts, man

March 14, 2026

Read online You may have encountered the unique voice […]

The Workings of the Epstein Class

March 1, 2026

Read online “Jeffrey lives in a vast house […]

They Know Where You Live, Where You Go, and Who Your Friends Are

January 31, 2026

After Federal agents shot two US citizens dead in […]

How to Utter Madness

January 13, 2026

“Government censorship of speech is intolerable […]

Making the Americas Great Again

January 9, 2026

Read online “MAGA loves [intervening in […]

No Food? No Home? Crisis or Opportunity?

November 15, 2025

Read Online Ever since John F. Kennedy pointed it out, […]

The Mark of Zohran

October 19, 2025

By now we all know that Zohran Mamdani, the New York […]

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi

September 24, 2025

Speaking as I was the other week about Hell, I can […]

Tales from the Vienna Working Class

September 1, 2025

Read online The Café with No Name, by Robert Seethaler […]

New York Times Intellectual Says Higher Education Breeds Nihilists

August 22, 2025

David Brooks has done it again; castigated the left […]

Murder, He Wrote

August 4, 2025

Thickafog by Caleb Mason An Evocative and Literate […]

Artificial Stupidity

July 18, 2025

AI came close to ruining my Monday, rendering a […]

With Friends Like This, Who Needs Enemies?

July 4, 2025

A special Independence day bonus for my loyal readers. […]

What She Did and Didn’t Do

June 20, 2025

Book review of Tell Me What You Did, a novel by Carter […]

All the News that’s Fit to Stream

June 18, 2025

Open in Browser You don’t need a weatherman to know […]

Putting Immigrants on Ice

May 12, 2025

Read Online The other day, agents from ICE rounded up […]

Coming Together but still Apart

April 22, 2025

Thirteen hundred protest rallies flooded across every […]

What Happened Next in America

March 30, 2025

This first installment of a fable contains truth but […]

As Goes Columbia, So Goes the Nation

March 13, 2025

Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian refugee and pro-Palestinian […]

The Plan to Steal America

March 4, 2025

Resist While You Still Can

February 16, 2025

“I’m told that we can’t post our way out of […]

Fire Sale

January 14, 2025

Greater Los Angeles is reeling from conflagrations […]

How I’m Doing: What’s Your Social Credit Score?

December 11, 2024

As 2024 finishes its dismal performance, I don’t […]

Teach What You Know, Learn What You Don’t

November 17, 2024

Say you want to start a second career as a teacher. […]

There Goes the Neighborhood

October 15, 2024

I’ve been enjoying a novel by Brit Matt Haig […]

A Bumpy Ride on the Orient Express

October 5, 2024

Book Review Last Train to Istanbul Ayşe Kulin John W. […]

Pit Bulls and Barbecue Pits (newsletter)

July 22, 2024

As I wrote this on Sunday, Joe Biden pulled out, […]

Lost and Found Memories

June 30, 2024

The Father She Went to Find: A novel by Carter Wilson […]

On Persistence of Memory (newsletter)

June 28, 2024

This month I’ve turned to memoir to recount […]

Love and Revolution in Iran

June 2, 2024

Half a Cup of Sand and Sky, by Nadine Bjursten (book […]

On Losing Our Senses

May 27, 2024

This month’s offering is on the longish side, so my […]

Guest Post: How to Write About Palestine

April 24, 2024

When I published “What Does ‘I support […]

Books Don’t Sell Themselves

March 24, 2024

The Writing Was the Fun Part This is the first Perfidy […]

What me worry?

February 24, 2024

Dear Readers, I had hoped to send this letter out from […]

Word Games

January 19, 2024

Attention Readers Expect a change in […]

A Slave to the Machine (newsletter)

December 13, 2023

[Nothing to say about Gaza this time around, to your […]

On Cats, Catastrophe, and Caregivers

November 16, 2023

I feel guilty for allowing a pet to die, but not as […]

What Does “I Support Israel” mean?

October 17, 2023

A word about endangered books: There’s been a […]

Why Unions Matter

September 17, 2023

Let’s talk about what’s behind rising […]

Nothing Special, just Life as We Know It

August 18, 2023

Dear Readers, This month, no august pronouncements, […]

The Manichean Candidate (Newsletter)

July 26, 2023

Named after a third-century Persian prophet named […]

Ephemera Are Us (Newsletter)

April 19, 2023

This is a story about why technological innovation […]

How the Empire Thinks (Bulletin)

April 6, 2023

Dear Readers, Just a quickie to tide you over while I […]

The State of the Onion (Newsletter)

February 25, 2023

Today would have been my mother’s 113th […]

Wringing Out the Old Year (Newsletter)

January 4, 2023

Dear Readers, Light rain has fallen all day here in […]

With a little Help from my Friends (newsletter)

November 15, 2022

I’m afraid another month blew by without saying […]

A House by the Side of the Road (Newsletter)

September 17, 2022

My apologies for not writing in August. Not only was […]

Why the Revolution Will Not Be Televised (newsletter)

July 9, 2022

Thanks to having our offer on a house accepted, June […]

Six Random Days in May (newsletter)

May 24, 2022

This month’s assorted provocations include […]

On Making Literary Connections (newsletter)

April 22, 2022

Before I forget, Saturday 4/30 is Indie Bookstore day. […]

On Conflict in Ukraine and in Two War Stories (Newsletter)

March 13, 2022

This month’s topical commentary comes with a […]

The Serpent Papers: A Novel by Jeff Schnader

March 4, 2022

Though I’ve never met Jeff Schnader, we […]

On Making Black and Other Lives Materially Matter (newsletter)

February 16, 2022

Celebrating Black History Month reminds one that, like […]

Becoming a Bookseller to Beat the Odds (newsletter)

January 18, 2022

December flew by with no opportunity to write to you, […]

“The freedom and exhilaration of moral insensibility” (Newsletter)

October 25, 2021

This is a difficult subject, but recently it’s […]

The “Beautiful Madness” that is Exarcheia (newsletter)

September 10, 2021

“The walls here are like a daily newspaper, trying to […]

Bringing Home the Bacon (newsletter)

August 19, 2021

Uncooked meaty bacon, courtesy of Science Meets Food […]

It’s Only Money (newsletter)

August 19, 2021

Dear Friends, How’s your summer panning out so far, […]

Masters of Florid(ian) Political Prose (newsletter)

June 4, 2021

These are tough times for political progressives in […]

A Penny for Your Ism (newsletter)

May 20, 2021

Thanks to continuing official outrages against People […]

The Gripes of Roth (newsletter)

April 5, 2021

Dear Readers, Tomorrow, I’ve recently learned, […]

Random Notes of the Season (newsletter)

March 23, 2021

Hi Everybody, Spring has sprung, the crocuses are in […]

Getting the Better of a Protagonist and Vice Versa (newsletter)

February 19, 2021

It saddened me greatly when my principal muse David […]

Looking Behind and Beyond the Sacking of the Capitol

January 9, 2021

I gave up making predictions of the coming year some […]

One Day in Istanbul, the Star of Elliot Ackerman’s Newest Novel

July 7, 2020

A review of Red Dress in Black and White by Elliot […]

The “Flag Girl” Stumbles but Never Flags

January 6, 2020

Liar’s Candle, a novel by August Thomas, New York: […]

Outsourcing Understanding

October 18, 2026

Read Online Close up, an electronic circuit board […]

They Really Are Trying to Kill Us

August 26, 2026

Read Online This is a special birthday edition of […]

Sourcing the Blue Wave of 2026 and its counterrevolutionaries

Month: November 2026

Blue Wave v. Nerd Reich