Petra Kurková’s life of quiet desperation is a little different from the usual kind, as […]
The Curator, by Owen King
It’s a brave new world for Dora and the other citizens of her city. The […]
Commonplace Book: October 2023
From The Madstone, by Elizabeth Crook: I had a powerful feeling of things being lost […]
This is Going to Hurt, by Adam Kay
During the early 2000s, Adam Kay studied and worked as a doctor in the UK, […]
The Exorcist, by William Peter Blatty
Trigger warning for sexual violence. Reading a classic scary story is always a chancy thing. […]
In the Pines, by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Trigger warnings for racialized violence, brief descriptions of torture, and lynching. Historian Grace Elizabeth Hale […]
A True Account, by Katherine Howe
Professor Marian Beresford is prone to temptation. As a lesbian in 1930s America, she has […]