Matthew Burresci’s Dead White Guys: A Father, His Daughter and the Great Books of the Western […]
This week on the bookish internet
Jaime Herndon is concerned about Go Set a Watchman (Book Riot). A school in my home state […]
When literary criticism meets evolutionary biology
To the dismay of my literature professors and some of my colleagues in my university’s […]
Church of Marvels, by Leslie Parry
The prologue of Leslie Parry’s Church of Marvels might lead you to think that it’s […]
Recollections of a young reader
I don’t have many. I honestly can’t remember the first book I ever bought with […]
Innocence; Or, Murder on Steep Street, by Heda Margoulis Kovály
The starting position of the police in 1950s Prague is that everyone is guilty of […]
The Girl with All the Gifts, by M.R. Carey
The original “girl with all the gifts” was Pandora, who opened a box that released […]
Girl at War, by Sara Nović
Ana Jurić has spent the last ten years not talking about what happened to her […]
Written in the Blood, by Stephen Lloyd Jones
Written in the Blood, by Stephen Lloyd Jones, is a story of unfinished business. In […]
The Strangler Vine, by M.J. Carter
“Strangler vine” is a common name for several different species of Ficus—what they have in […]