Stories By Marla Wick
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Books
Book Review: Mule: A Novel of Moving Weight by Tony D’Souza
January 28, 2023After a happy, if lean, year spent in a tiny mountain cabin, struggling to get their...
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Books
Book Review: Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
January 11, 2023The 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
January 11, 2023The revealed mystery of “those across the river,” how they came to be and what they...
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Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Monkey’s Wedding and Other Stories by Joan Aiken
November 30, 2022The 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
March 23, 2022Perhaps 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
January 28, 2022Though some stories in Astray are more poignant than others, Donoghue once again shows herself to...
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Books
Book Review: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
December 17, 2021Through the invocation of epic prose forms and literary allusion, Kincaid elevates the nuclear family drama...
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Book Review: Red Moon by Benjamin Percy
November 13, 2021Like its monsters, Red Moon is an impressive hybrid—a speculative novel about fairy tale horrors, a...
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Book Review: Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
November 11, 2021An enterprising Japanese capitalist, presumably in conjunction with the state, recruits women from all over the...
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Books
Book Review: Pure by Julianna Baggott
September 17, 2021Sketching the parameters of Baggott’s palimpsestic narrative is tricky. Briefly put, the backstory of the novel...