Book review: “Judgment on Janus” by Andre Norton
Naill Renfro has the Green Sick and has been exiled into the great, dark forest. He awakens from a fever dream and drags himself to a nearby pool for a [...]
Naill Renfro has the Green Sick and has been exiled into the great, dark forest. He awakens from a fever dream and drags himself to a nearby pool for a [...]
Adam Levin’s 2010 novel The Instructions is nothing if not ambitious. Weighing in at 1,030 pages, it deals deeply with the interior lives of pre-teens, the hair-splitting debates of Torah [...]
There is a temptation to start off this review with a pun, but no dice. I know that I’m nowhere near as good at it as Terry Pratchett, as he [...]
When Bill Sikes is introduced in Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens describes him thusly: “The man who growled out these words, was a stoutly-built fellow of about five-and-thirty, in a black [...]
Elmore Leonard’s first novel The Bounty Hunters was published in 1953, just eight years after World War II, and it was part of a movement in American arts to reevaluate [...]
The Song of Songs is one of three very odd books in the Bible. Ecclesiastes expresses a deep mournful existential angst not found anywhere else in the Jewish and Christian [...]
I don’t know about anyone else, but I’m feeling sort of left out. This past weekend, President Donald Trump tweeted about how much he dislikes singer and activist John Legend [...]
Primo Levi’s The Periodic Table, published in Italian in 1975, is a literary memoir of high art and broad ambition. It covers the waterfront. The periodic table, of course, is [...]
On the occasion of this 126th Labor Day as a national holiday, I’d like to make a modest proposal: Let’s have a second one — Labor Day 2 — that’s [...]