Zhenia is content with her life as Katya Apekina’s emotionally stunning novel, Mother Doll, opens. […]
Commonplace Book: January 2024
From Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent: I’m off the middle of nowhere. If you […]
Fourteen Days, by Various Authors
Fourteen Days, edited by Margaret Atwood and Douglas Preston and written by 36 authors under […]
Unnatural Ends, by Christopher Huang
Sir Lawrence Linwood’s unlamented death summons his three adopted children from Peru, France, and London […]
Thoughts about AI and a Writer’s Voice
I try to avoid reading long texts created by AI. I prefer to spend my […]
The Tainted Cup, by Robert Jackson Bennett
Robert Jackson Bennett takes the classic pairing of irritable genius detective and neophyte assistant and […]
Language City, by Ross Perlin
At the time of writing, the current population of New York City is 8.468 million […]
The Warm Hands of Ghosts, by Katherine Arden
It’s been just over 100 years since the end of World War I. The last […]