Stories By Elinor Teele
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...
Fiction Reviews
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...
Movies
Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins by Rupert Everett
June 2, 2026The universe appears to have cheated Rupert Everett. By rights, he belongs to the Edwardian age,...
Anthropology
Light of the Moon by Luane Rice
December 13, 2025Femi-lit doesn’t make as many headlines as its younger sister, but it shares certain familial traits....
Movies
The Big Country: How the West Finally Won
November 26, 2025It’s not a classic in the sense of Casablanca or Citizen Kane, but it’s a kind...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Charles Dickens: A Life by Claire Tomalin
September 26, 2025The happiness was not to last. More Scrooge than Bob Cratchit in some respects, he was...
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