No good deed goes unpunished. Fortunately, most people’s good deeds don’t involve the harrowing, strange […]
The Candlelit Menagerie, by Caraline Brown
About thirty years after the events of Caraline Brown’s The Candlelit Menagerie, the London Zoo […]
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Is J.K. Rowling actually being cancelled for her transphobic comments? (LitHub) Matthew Bladen explores the […]
The Last Million, by David Nasaw
World War II did not end on V-E and V-J Days. Hostilities ceased on those […]
The Dark Library, by Cyrille Martinez
I think that, if you spend enough time around books and libraries, you are exposed […]
Where the Wild Ladies Are, by Aoko Matsuda
Trigger warning for brief domestic violence. In one of the stories in Aoko Matsuda’s collection, […]
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Larissa Irankunda has some important words about Octavia Butler’s finally making it to the bestseller […]
The Archive of the Forgotten, by A.J. Hackwith
About a year ago, I read the absolutely delightful novel, The Library of the Unwritten, […]
The Devil and the Dark Water, by Stuart Turton
A journey from Batavia, in what is now Indonesia, to Amsterdam took eight months in […]
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue, by V.E. Schwab
Literature is full of examples of why one needs to be careful what we wish […]