Stories By Marla Wick
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight by Tony D’Souza
September 23, 2025After a happy, if lean, year spent in a tiny mountain cabin, struggling to get their...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
September 16, 2025The family takes a trip over the frozen sea to a lighthouse. While there, the 6...
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Book Review: Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
September 16, 2025The revealed mystery of “those across the river,” how they came to be and what they...
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Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
August 1, 2025The pieces in this collection are tight knots or loose koans—sweet little puzzles. Told with the...
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Book Review: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
November 15, 2024Perhaps it’s fair to say that the big accomplishment of Diaz’s new book is that it...
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Book Review: Astray by Emma Donoghue
October 9, 2024Though some stories in Astray are more poignant than others, Donoghue once again shows herself to...
Books
Book Review: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
September 20, 2024Through the invocation of epic prose forms and literary allusion, Kincaid elevates the nuclear family drama...
Books
Book Review: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
August 27, 2024Like its monsters, Red Moon is an impressive hybrid—a speculative novel about fairy tale horrors, a...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
August 26, 2024An enterprising Japanese capitalist, presumably in conjunction with the state, recruits women from all over the...
Books
Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
July 6, 2024Sketching the parameters of Baggott’s palimpsestic narrative is tricky. Briefly put, the backstory of the novel...