Dawnie Wilson’s rocking debut novel "The Final Revival of Opal and Nev" is about the greatest musical...
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As a thought experiment, let's consider Virginia Woolf to be a horror writer; all of her characters...
The Belly of Paris by Emile Zola about the Paris food market is crammed full of enough...
The second book in Butler's Parables series shows how our stories can often blind us to reality,...
Lending libraries began among the lumières who could afford them. Thoughts on public bookcases, private vices, and...
Octavia Butler's 1993 novel Parable of the Sower posits a future dystopia that's located just right next...
It's hard to know quite how to read Lucia, an imaginative and erudite depiction of a woman's...
Naturally, Juneteenth by Ralph Ellison is an unfinished work. All things living are unfinished. But what’s there...
François-René de Chateaubriand tried to find his way in the moments after the old world had ceased...
Wild Seed is often called a science-fiction novel, with the sciences being biology and genetics, and really...
Richard Wright's "lost" 1942 novel of guilt, exile, and spiritual initiation has been fortuitously pulled up from...
Why does the middlebrow matter? Who cares what a Jane or John Doe has to say about...
Jim Harrison's classic character Brown Dog seems to have figured out life's secret- we're just here to...
It’s pretty unfair to say, “but The Hunger Games characters had their agency removed!” I mean, yeah,...
Hanif Abdurraqib's song of praise never elides Black pain or the reality of racism; but centers and...
Let’s explode the Canon and cultivate critical distance, opening up new vistas and leaving behind stale arguments.
We've reached the final volume of "In Search of Lost Time" and, finally, our hero has realized...
I keep bumping up against the same theme. “Ramona Quimby is iconic because she’s so NAUGHTY!” these...
In my eyes, Game of Thrones & George RR Martin have done but one unforgivable thing, and...
There are many readers for whom “The Fugitive” is their favorite volume because it’s a psychologically rich...
