Stories By Elinor Teele
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...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Daughter of Heaven by Nigel Cawthorne
February 16, 2025In a shocking and vaguely incestuous move, she seduced T’ai-tsung’s son, the Emperor Kao-tsung, and from...
Caribbean
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz
February 14, 2025This book isn’t a book, it’s a jazz piece, a series of improvisations on Díaz’s country,...
Denmark
The Quiet Girl by Peter Høeg
February 13, 2025A thriller is often a race, but without the understanding of exactly why this girl is...




