Stories By Elinor Teele
Great Britain
O Beloved Kids: Rudyard Kipling’s Letters to his Children
March 7, 2025An Imperialist, a warmonger, blind to what was in front of him, the critics say. A...
Fiction Reviews
Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
March 5, 2025Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....
Fiction Reviews
The Lady Elizabeth by Alison Weir
March 4, 2025If 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
March 4, 2025More intimately, van Dantzig shows us the idiosyncratic human being that powered the death-defying leaps and...
Music
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...
Short Stories
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...

Historical Fiction
Coffee with… Series
February 26, 2025Barnes’s giant of the Western world is short, sharp, and funny, and well worth spending time...
Politics
American-Made by Nick Taylor
February 24, 2025Meanwhile, walls of buildings were rising, mud roads were being paved, library books were being delivered...





