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...
Book Review: Swamplandia! by Karen Russell
July 12, 2025The passing of Swamplandia!, a crass, hokey "hicksville" where live chickens are suspended from wires to...
Book Review: Heartstone: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C.J. Sansom
July 11, 2025Matthew Shardlake the lawyer and his friend Dr. Guy Malton represent the arrival of the professional...
Book Review: Destiny and Desire by Carlos Fuentes
July 10, 2025A decapitated head washes ashore near the Mexican resort city of Acapulco. A young man, Josué,...
Book Review: The Sherlockian< by Graham Moore
July 8, 2025There is a telling scene in the novel, when Conan Doyle visits the theatre managed by...
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
July 6, 2025If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
Book Review: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
July 4, 2025Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...
Book Review: Nemesis by Philip Roth
June 28, 2025Weequahic has been particularly hard-hit by the summer’s polio epidemic. Bucky, stuck supervising his school playground’s...
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
June 23, 2025Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Book Review: Gauntlgrym: Neverwinter, Book 1 by R. A. Salvatore
June 22, 2025One thing is clear: Salvatore is moving Drizzt ahead toward a new point in his life....




