Thomas Mullen dives deeply into the gray area between good and evil in The Rumor […]
Strange Sally Diamond, by Liz Nugent
I’ve put off writing this review because, even though I finished it nearly a week […]
A Stranger in the Citadel, by Tobias S. Buckell
Once again, I have been suckered in by a premise involving librarians in danger. Sadly, […]
Commonplace Book: December 2023
From The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James: At his desk, he stuck one finger […]
The Djinn Waits A Hundred Years, by Shubnum Khan
Shubnum Khan’s powerful, hypnotic novel, The Djinn Waits a Hundred Years, floored me. I feel […]
Hazardous Spirits, by Anbara Salam
The traditional Christian wedding vows include provisions “for better or worse, for richer or poorer, […]
The Bullet Swallower, by Elizabeth Gonzalez James
The Sonoros, we learn early in Elizabeth Gonzalez James’s violent meditation on the sins of […]