Book Review: Shaking the Gates of Hell
A riveting reflection of melancholy and growth
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Book Review: gods with a little g
Good enough doesn’t work for the gods
Review: American Dirt
Ignore the controversy. Ignore the writer’s background, ignore cancel culture, ignore the finger wagging, ignore the hindrances: Is American DirtContinue Reading
Fleishman Is In Trouble: A Review
Taffy Brodesser-Anker’s debut is wonderful!
Talking to Strangers? We’re Doing It Wrong
What happens when strangers meet? Ask Gladwell.
What Happened, Entertainment Weekly?
The mighty EW needs a fix.
Review: Furious Hours is Quite the Document
No one will claim that Casey Cep doesn’t do her research. In her first book Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, andContinue Reading
Sally Rooney’s Second Novel ‘Normal People’ Finds Beauty
Normal People, Sally Rooney’s second novel, doesn’t sound magical or special in summary: Connell is the popular high school boy,Continue Reading
The Dreamers: Like Sleep, Rich and Beautiful
How often is it that we hear, even from ourselves, the longing for more rest, more sleep? In my houseContinue Reading
It’s the Biggest Weekend of the Year (So Far)
The rut of bad movies are done. Summer is almost here. Music is in the air. People are already lookingContinue Reading
Engaging and Concerning – A Review of Education: A Memoir
Two things strike immediate concern with Tara Westover’s highly lauded Educated: A Memoir: author J.D. Vance offers the first blurb on theContinue Reading
Review: The Electric Woman is a Memoir for the Ages
There’s a moment in Tessa Fontaine’s extraordinary memoir The Electric Woman: A Memoir in Death-Defying Acts where the owner of a sideshowContinue Reading
Review: The Cabin at the End of the World is a Excellent Novel for Halloween
The horror genre often works at its best when the characters are not only people that are believable but alsoContinue Reading
Book Review: Black Klansman: Race, Hate, and the Undercover Investigation of a Lifetime
Wow, does Ron Stallworth have a story. Lucky for readers, he divulges exactly how it all came to be inContinue Reading
‘Factfulness’, Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the World
If I had my way in the world, I would unabashedly slap a copy of Factfulness: Ten Reasons Why We’reContinue Reading
