In Lady Windemere’s Fan, one of Oscar Wilde’s characters defines a cynic as “A man who […]
Jade Dragon Mountain, by Elsa Hart
Li Du, former librarian and official exile, has a lot in common with a number […]
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Chris Arnone writes about how fiction filled a critical gap in his education over at Book […]
The Sellout, by Paul Beatty
Paul Beatty’s searingly caustic and smart satire, The Sellout, begins with the unnamed narrator about to […]
Secondhand Souls, by Christopher Moore
Christopher Moore’s A Dirty Job introduced us to Charlie Asher, a reluctant Death Merchant, widower, and […]
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens
One of my long-standing New Year’s reading resolutions (if two years can be considered long-standing) […]
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Catherine Nichols writes about Atticus Finch’s troubling racism for Jezebel. David J. Alworth has a brilliant […]
The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski
There’s a line from the movie Juno that kept floating through my head as I read […]
Bookish voices
When I’m not working at my library, reading books, or sleeping, I fill the bookish […]
Woman of the Dead, by Bernhard Aichner
I’ve been trying to scrub Woman of the Dead, by Bernhard Aichner, out of my head […]