Stories By Elinor Teele
Humor
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
March 20, 2025Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Fiction Reviews
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
March 16, 2025So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
Fiction Reviews
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
March 16, 2025That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
Native American
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Casanova by Ian Kelly
March 15, 2025Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
Fiction Reviews
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
March 13, 2025Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
History
Résistance by Agnès Humbert
March 13, 2025The early resistors soon discover that the Nazis don’t view their activities with similar lightheartedness. Oblivious...
Fiction Reviews
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
March 11, 2025Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
Fiction Reviews
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
March 11, 2025Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Dancer Within: Intimate Conversations with Great Dancers by Rose Eichenbaum
March 9, 2025In fact, the only one who doesn’t fall in with this uplifting sentiment is, God bless...
Trending
