There’s a story my mother likes to tell—probably to demonstrate that I’ve been pedantic from […]
The Girl in the Road, by Monica Byrne
When I first learned how to analyze stories, my teacher taught us Gustav Freytag’s Pyramid. […]
Fledglings
Librarians help people find information and then send them on their way. We deliberately distance […]
97 Orchard, by Jane Ziegelman
Tonight, I had Italian wedding soup as a dinner course. Italian wedding soup is a […]
Beatrice and Virgil, by Yann Martel
Earlier this spring, I read a short article by Cynthia Ozick about the duties and […]
Daughters of Shadow and Blood, by J. Matthew Saunders
I’ve always thought that the three brides of Dracula were a wasted opportunity in Bram […]
Gorky Park, by Martin Cruz Smith
Arkady Renko is an honest man. But he lives in a place at a time […]
Kicks, streaks, jags, benders…and ruts
Since this past Sunday, I have been spending all my free time in the former […]
Stasiland, by Anna Funder
The statistics tell us that the East German population was the most surveilled population in […]
The Shore, by Sara Taylor
There was a passage from The Merchant of Venice that played on a loop in […]