Stories By Elinor Teele
History
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
July 15, 2026America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
July 15, 2026Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
July 14, 2026Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Fiction Reviews
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
July 11, 2026That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
Fiction Reviews
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
July 10, 2026So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
Sex
Casanova by Ian Kelly
July 10, 2026Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
July 9, 2026It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Books
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
July 7, 2026Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
July 7, 2026The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Fiction Reviews
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
July 5, 2026Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...




