Kate Moore’s Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women turned out to be a timely […]
A Square Meal, by Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe
Jane Ziegelman and Andrew Coe’s A Square Meal: A Culinary History of the Great Depression is much […]
New Boy, by Tracy Chevalier
I think we keep returning to tragedies with the vague hope that this time things […]
Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane
Marriages are odd things when you start to really think about them, especially when the […]
Lilli de Jong, by Janet Benton
Stories about new mothers tend to stop with with the birth and the implication that […]
Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley
Christopher Morley’s Parnassus on Wheels is a delightful novella about two oddballs who fall in love over […]
Hex, by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The people of Black Spring, New York are cursed. It’s not really their fault. They […]
Long Black Veil, by Jennifer Finney Boylan
Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Long Black Veil begins like many other “awful thing happens to a group […]
Winter Tide, by Ruthanna Emrys
Though I haven’t read any of his stories myself, I can understand why Lovecraft‘s Cthulu […]
The Gargoyle Hunters, by John Freeman Gill
1974 is a hard year for Griffin Watts. His parents have split up and they […]