Stories By Elinor Teele
Non-Fiction Reviews
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
July 2, 2026An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
Thrillers
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
June 30, 2026Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
June 29, 2026If you’re going to mix brains with bosoms, however, you have to be very careful stylistically....
Non-Fiction Reviews
Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig
June 28, 2026More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
Movies
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
June 28, 2026Again, it took an intervention, this time by Moss Hart, to point her in the right...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Nancy Love and the WASP Ferry Pilots of World War II by Sarah Byrn Rickman
June 27, 2026They were also a PR dream. Initially working for her future husband, Robert Love, the young...
China
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...
Historical Fiction
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...
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