Abdullah is a gentleman and a scholar. Unfortunately, no one in his family seems to […]
In Praise of…Footnotes
I can’t remember when I first read Good Omens, by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman*, but […]
Save Me From Dangerous Men, by S.A. Lelchuk
Series opener Save Me From Dangerous Men, by S.A. Lelchuk, is a wild run. I almost put it down […]
The Bird King, by G. Willow Wilson
In 1491, Fatima’s world is coming to an end. She is the slave of the […]
The Goose Fritz, by Sergei Lebedev
Kirill, the protagonist of Sergei Lebedev’s erudite The Goose Fritz, has a gift for imagining the past. […]
The Letter Bearer, by Robert Allison
Perhaps the worst thing that ever happened to the protagonist of Robert Allison’s Homeric novel, […]
An Artist of the Floating World, by Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World reminded me just how much I love unreliable narrators who are unreliable […]
I Take Issue…With Bad Copycat Publishing
I understand. I really do. Publishers want to make money and, traditionally, the best way […]
The Temptation to Be Happy, by Lorenzo Marone
Trigger warning for domestic violence. Lorenzo Marone’s The Temptation to Be Happy (excellently translated by Shaun Whiteside) is masquerading as grump lit*. The […]