Trigger warning for references to rape. The women of Green City have one duty. As […]
Amatka, by Karin Tidbeck
Anyone familiar with myth knows that names have power. If you know the true name […]
The Talented Ribkins, by Ladee Hubbard
Johnny Ribkins is too old for this shit. He’s 72 and he has to crisscross […]
Space Opera, by Catherynne M. Valente
Every now and then, I’ll run across a book where you can absolutely tell that […]
The Aviator, by Eugene Vodolazkin
Innokenty Petrovich Platonov wakes up in a hospital at the beginning of The Aviator, by Eugene […]
Darwin’s Ghosts, by Ariel Dorfman
Late in Ariel Dorfman’s philosophical novel Darwin’s Ghosts, a professor asks the protagonist, “who is not […]
The Measurements of Decay, by K.K. Edin
Humans are a fractious species. I know that chimpanzees occasionally go to war with one […]
Downdrift, by Johanna Drucker
Johanna Drucker’s Downdrift is the first (and probably only) book I’ve ever read that was narrated […]
School for Psychics, by K.C. Archer
For someone who bills themselves as a human lie detector, Teddy Cannon sure struggles when […]