Stories By Elinor Teele
Non-Fiction Reviews
Remembering Nureyev by Rudi van Dantzig
March 4, 2025More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
Biography
Home: A Memoir of My Early Years by Julie Andrews
March 3, 2025Again, 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
March 2, 2025They 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
March 2, 2025Flash 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
February 27, 2025But as we travel further and further from established trade routes, things become hazier. The Caspian...
Fiction Reviews
Coffee with… Series
February 26, 2025Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Economics
American-Made by Nick Taylor
February 24, 2025Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...
Fiction Reviews
Morning and Evening Talk by Naguib Mahfouz
February 23, 2025Reading 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
February 22, 2025If you meet a quiet, rugged kind of a fella with an almost superhuman knowledge of...
Fiction Reviews
My Thousand & One Nights by Raja Alem and Tom McDonough
February 18, 2025In Alem’s world-view, one might expect to see objects morph into people, animals writhe in henna...