A rather liberal book reviewer in the Washington Post gets defensive in her very first paragraph Sunday:

Some people don’t like Sara Paretsky’s V.I. Warshawski mysteries. They think the series is altogether too preachy — especially about feminism. What Paretsky’s detractors dismiss as left-wing propaganda, however, her many — and perhaps more politically simpatico — fans extol as a seamless wedding of the novel of ideas with the hard-boiled mystery. Or, as I’ve heard myself sometimes snarl at Paretsky’s critics: “Hey, if it’s reactionary shoot-’em-up stories you want, go read a trench coat fascist like Mickey Spillane or a techno tough guy like Tom Clancy.”

Is it any surprise the writer is Maureen Corrigan, the book critic for “Fresh Air” on…National Public Radio?