By the time I finished reading Lucy Ribchester’s The Amber Shadows, I felt like I was […]
The Refrigerator Monologues, by Catherynne M. Valente
In 1999, comics writer and critic Gail Simone started a website called Women in Refrigerators […]
Rebellion, by Molly Patterson
Thoreau was only half right when he said that “The mass of men live lives […]
This week on the bookish internet
I’ve seen calls for help transcribing old documents before, but this one is probably the […]
To Die in Spring, by Ralf Rothmann
In 1915, an iconic recruitment ad appeared in Britain in which a child asks, “Daddy, […]
Crossing the Lines, by Sulari Gentill
Thousands of years ago, a Chinese philosopher wrote about waking from a dream in which […]
Ruined Stones, by Eric Reed
If it hadn’t been for the war, Grace Baxter would never have been able to […]
Reviewing, Past and Present
This weekend, I started to clean up my oldest reviews. Images had disappeared. Links broke. […]
The Bedlam Stacks, by Natasha Pulley
I’ve been anxiously awaiting Natasha Pulley’s second novel, whatever it happened to be. I’m happy […]
Live from Cairo, by Ian Bassingthwaighte
There are some jobs I know I could never perform: therapist, dental hygienist, anything to […]