All The Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler
★☆☆☆☆ All The Dirty Parts by Daniel Handler delivers on the promise of its clickbaity title with a variety of sexual musings and seduction artist field reports. Cole is a high school student who...
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Eastman Was Here by Alex Gilvarry
★★★★☆ When a story’s main character possesses that ideal blend of questionable decisions and idiosyncratic worldviews, the resulting novel can really soar. Novelist Alex Gilvarry has accomplished this in the protagonist of Alan Eastman,...
Pig/Pork by Pía Spry-Marqués
★★★★☆ Our love affair with pigs – more accurately pork – extends to the dawn of human existence. Excavations at the site of Medzhibozh 1 in Western Ukraine indicate that “wild boar were being...
Catching Breath by Kathryn Lougheed
★★★★☆ This “scientific biography” of tuberculosis (TB) is a fascinating, scholarly account of a persistent, often misunderstood disease. TB, as Kathryn Lougheed so eloquently reveals, has been with us since we became us. With...
The Strange Bird by Jeff VanderMeer
★★★★☆ Earlier this year, Jeff VanderMeer published Borne, a terrifically surreal book of dystopian sci-fi zoology. Following the success of his 2014 “Southern Reach” trilogy (the first volume of which is currently being adapted...
Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Muñoz Molina
★★★☆☆ “The world is a moving maze of signs,” Muñoz Molina writes early in his kaleidoscopic new novel Like a Fading Shadow. It’s a potent warning of what’s to come: partly an autobiographical writing...
Isadora by Amelia Gray
★★★★☆ Long before the cult of personality promulgated by the tabloid “news” outlets of today, Isadora Duncan was known by one name. More than one hundred years later Isadora conjures memories of a life...
Uncomfortably Happily by Yeon-Sik Hong
★★★★☆ Uncomfortably Happily is a gentle slice-of-life manhwa memoir about adapting to change. Yeon-Sik and his wife move from Seoul to the mountains in an effort to clear their heads from the busy clamor...
The Forensic Records Society by Magnus Mills
★★★★☆ The Forensic Records Society begins promptly with the formation of its titular organization, a small group of audiophiles who listen to music intently in the back room of an unremarkable England pub. The...
