Everything I’ve read by China Miéville is an exercise in weirdness. Three Moments of an Explosion, […]
The twist in the tale
There is a long standing question in the bookish world about plot twists and unreliable […]
Do Not Sell at Any Price, by Amanda Petrusich
Last spring, I read John Jeremiah Sullivan’s long article for The New York Times Magazine, “The […]
This week on the bookish Internet
Publishers were shocked, shocked! to discover that woman love erotica. Calum Marsh reports for The Guardian […]
Footprints in the Desert, by Maha Akhtar
Maha Akhtar’s Footprints in the Desert had so much potential. T.E. Lawrence makes an appearance and blows […]
The Fifth House of the Heart, by Ben Tripp
How far would you go for treasures? Would you risk more if the treasure was worth […]
Allegiance, by Kermit Roosevelt
In the Author’s Note at the end of Kermit Roosevelt’s Allegiance, Roosevelt writes, “The story of […]
Mastering the art of reading in a crowd
For some reason, I have gaps of an hour or so in between a lot […]
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A.J. O’Connell does some initial linguistic work on swearing in speculative fiction for Book Riot. Stuart […]
All This Life, by Joshua Mohr
I can remember when my dad first got us online. We had AOL and it […]