Joe Abercrombie’s new novel, The Devils, is violent, chaotic, devious—and I loved every page of […]
Commonplace Book: April 2025
From “No Comfort,” by Fintan O’Toole: So what does Shakespeare teach us? Nothing. His tragic […]
Proto, by Laura Spinney
Ethnologue (an amazing source for linguistics information and data) reports that, as of 2025, 3.39 […]
The Country Under Heaven, by Frederic S. Durbin
Ovid Vesper headed out west like a lot of other men after the Civil War […]
The Names, by Florence Knapp
Trigger warning for interpersonal violence. Cora will never know what might have happened if she […]
The Devil Three Times, by Rickey Fayne
Satan appears much more than three times in Rickey Fayne’s generational saga, The Devil Three […]
Commonplace Book: January to March 2025
From The Watermark, by Sam Mills: ‘I am too old for all this,’ I say, […]