Most articles about the “death of the novel” focus on declining book sales and reading […]
A Curious Beginning, by Deanna Reybourn
Veronica Speedwell is a very unusual woman. Even if it wasn’t 1887, I’m not sure […]
An Excess Male, by Maggie Shen King
The Chinese government instituted a policy restricting couples to one child only in 1979. There […]
The Book Smugglers, by David E. Fishman
Years ago, I read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning, in which the author argues that there […]
Strange Practice, by Vivian Shaw
It’s a dirty job, but someone’s got to doctor the monsters of London. If it […]
The Last Ballad, by Wiley Cash
Wiley Cash’s The Last Ballad is a fictional account of the last months of union worker and […]
Verdict of Twelve, by Raymond Postgate
The older I get (and possibly because of the fiction I choose to read), the […]
Swearing Off Stars, by Danielle M. Wong
Right off the bat, I have to say that Danielle M. Wong’s Swearing Off Stars is […]
An Unkindness of Ghosts, by Rivers Solomon
Aster’s world is too small for all the people living in it. Her world is […]