Tom Nolan

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Tom Nolan

Plus S.A. Cosby’s ‘King of Ashes’ and Donatella Di Pietrantonio’s ‘The Brittle Age.’Peter Swanson’s latest novel of suspense presents Thom Graves, a 50-ish tenured professor of English, and his wife, Wendy, a published poet, living in a fine house in coastal Massachusetts, with no money worries and a mostly grown son. Yet we soon learn, in “Kill Your Darlings,” that Wendy and Thom are a star-crossed couple who’ve come to a spooky crossroads.

3 weeks ago | wsj.com | Tom Nolan

The writer of ‘Get Shorty,’ ‘Out of Sight’ and many other hard-boiled tales aimed at literary success from an early age. His deceptively economical style became a hallmark.

1 month ago | bmj.com | Tom Nolan

Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchHearing aids to reduce lonelinessGiving a hearing aid to people with untreated hearing loss helps them retain one additional person in their social network over a three year period. This catchy finding from a secondary analysis of the ACHIEVE study seems ripe for being widely cited as evidence that we can make a big difference to patients’ lives by getting the basics right.

1 month ago | wsj.com | Tom Nolan

Plus ‘Nightshade’ by Michael Connelly and ‘The Doorman’ by Chris Pavone. Fans of the inventive English author Anthony Horowitz have reason to celebrate the arrival of “Marble Hall Murders,” the third entry in a terrific series started in 2016. This book, like the earlier two, is partly narrated by Susan Ryeland, a London editor who had coaxed the crime writer Alan Conway—a bitter, malicious man who was eventually murdered—through a popular series of detective novels set in the 1950s.

1 month ago | bmj.com | Tom Nolan

Tom Nolan, clinical editor; sessional GP, SurreyThe BMJ, LondonTom Nolan reviews this week’s researchLorundrostat for uncontrolled hypertensionThere’s certainly a gap in the market for an effective third or fourth line antihypertensive.