When I read a book, I almost always try to work out some kind of […]
The House of the Seven Gables, by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I picked up The House of the Seven Gables, one of Nathaniel Hawthorne‘s best known […]
The Poison Squad, by Deborah Blum
The Poison Squad: One Chemist’s Single-Minded Crusade For Food Safety at the Turn of the Twentieth […]
Creatures of Want and Ruin, by Molly Tanzer
It’s hard out there for a young woman with a bitter, disabled father who has […]
Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich
Future Home of the Living God, by Louise Erdrich, is part of a dialogue in […]
How to Be Safe, by Tom McAllister
Tom McAllister’s How to Be Safe tackles one of the biggest flash points in American politics: […]
We Are All Completely Fine, by Daryl Gregory
Most adventure stories, of any stripe, focus on the lead up to, the journey to, […]
Hannah Green and Her Unfeasibly Mundane Existence, by Michael Marshall Smith
Eleven-year-old Hannah is not having a good summer. Her parents are getting divorced and she […]
The Kinship of Secrets, by Eugenia Kim
An impossible choice separates a Korean family just before the Korean War breaks out in […]
Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver
The more historical fiction I read—especially when it’s paired with a contemporary narrative, like a […]