Stories By Elinor Teele
Fiction Reviews
The Pearl Jacket and Other Stories: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China
June 27, 2026Flash fiction, or the “smoke-long story,” or the “skinny story,” as it is sometimes called in...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Naming of America by John W. Hessler
June 24, 2026But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
Fiction Reviews
Coffee with… Series
June 21, 2026Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Non-Fiction Reviews
American-Made by Nick Taylor
June 20, 2026Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
June 19, 2026Reading these medieval entries can be as exciting as perusing annotated bibliographies at times, since the...
Fiction Reviews
The Collected Short Stories of Louis L’Amour
June 18, 2026If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
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My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
June 15, 2026In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
June 14, 2026In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
Fiction Reviews
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
June 11, 2026This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Fiction Reviews
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
June 11, 2026A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...
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