Stories By Elinor Teele
Biography
Book Review: Cleopatra: A Biography by Duane W. Roller
May 20, 2025Pity Duane W. Roller, author of Cleopatra: A Biography. I can just imagine the initial conversation...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Wild Romance: A Victorian Story of a Marriage, a Trial, and a Self-Made Woman by Chloë Schama
May 17, 2025A secret affair. A scandalous sex-filled trial. A tell-all novel. If it’s any consolation to Tiger...
Theatre
Book Review: Shakespeare’s Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Charles Beauclerk
May 12, 2025I would have thought Shakespeare in Love might have advanced our understanding of the authorship debate,...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The American Girl by Monika Fagerholm
May 1, 2025It's a radioactive fairy tale, with adults known only by nicknames (the Black Sheep, the baroness)...
Art
The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova
April 22, 2025Oliver won’t socialize. He won’t even speak. He simply spends his days wrapped in his obsession,...
Fiction Reviews
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
April 20, 2025For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...
Japan
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
April 18, 2025James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
Music
Nicole Atkins: Femme Noir
April 11, 2025She’s been called the female Roy Orbison, a psychedelic metalhead who grew up listening to Elvis...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series by Mark Frost
April 9, 2025Baseball’s World Series. 1975. The Cincinnati Reds, manager Sparky Anderson’s Big Red Machine, are up 3...
Fiction Reviews
The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
April 9, 2025The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...