Whatever happened to Fate? Fate appears in nearly every ancient story we have, as well […]
The Deep, by Rivers Solomon, with Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, and Jonathan Snipes
It’s no surprise to me that we often call history a burden. The terrible actions […]
This week on the bookish internet
Why the hell do this books have different titles and covers on different sides of […]
Now We Shall Be Entirely Free, by Andrew Miller
There are always questions when a soldier returns home. The questions range from the obvious […]
A couch of one’s own
In the past, I’ve written about my ideal bookstore (heaven is a bookstore and all […]
Lady in the Lake, by Laura Lippman
Mystery fiction is full of amateur detectives. They’re a great vehicle for cozy mysteries, or […]
The Queen, by Josh Levin
The phrase “welfare queen” has been around all my life, but I never knew where […]
Miss Buncle’s Book, by D.E. Stevenson
I started listening to Backlisted this week, a British podcast featuring authors and scholars talking […]
This week on the bookish internet
This week’s big news (REALLY BIG NEWS) is that a scholar believes that an annotated […]
Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi
The title of Johka Alharthi’s novel, Celestial Bodies, put me in mind of an armillary […]