One of my favorite books of last year (The Tsar of Love and Techno, by […]
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu, by Joshua Hammer
How could I resist a book with this title? Even without the title, I would […]
The Weaver Fish, by Robert Edeson
Even though reading Robert Edeson’s The Weaver Fish made me feel simultaneously smarter and stupider, I’m […]
The Confidant, by Hélène Grémillon
One of the most challenging ethical dilemmas I’ve ever come across is two parents battling […]
The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker, by Leanna Renee Hieber
The thing about tropes is…sometimes they work for us. The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy […]
Hiding in Plain Sight, by Eric Stover, Victor Peskin, and K. Alexa Koenig
War is ugly, dehumanizing, cruel, and destructive in more than one sense. We know that […]
The Wolf Trial, by Neil Mackay
In 1563, Peter Strumpf (also spelled Stumpp) was executed for killing approximately 70 people. This […]
Trooper to the Southern Cross, by Angela Thirkell
Even in the age of air travel, Australia is a long way away. Traveling to Australia […]