Stories By Elinor Teele
Non-Fiction Reviews
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...
Fiction Reviews
Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
April 5, 2025Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...
Fiction Reviews
Homer & Langley by E.L. Doctorow
April 5, 2025Sing in me, Muse quotes Homer (the original one). "Jacqueline, my muse, I speak to you...
Fiction Reviews
In the Kitchen by Monica Ali
April 3, 2025Yuri is a porter, one of Britain’s penniless immigrants that Ali would like us (and Gabe)...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
April 2, 2025The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
March 30, 2025For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
March 28, 2025"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...