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★★★★☆ At first glance, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom’s Palimpsest feels incongruous with its form. A graphic memoir that investigates Sjöblom’s own adoption in Sweden and her biological parents back in South Korea, Palimpsest is an...
★★☆☆☆ Lydia Davis is the flagship writer of the “flash fiction” format: fictional works of extreme brevity, sometimes consisting of just a sentence or two. With a publishing record spanning back to the late...
★★★★☆ With Little Weirds, actress and comedian Jenny Slate has created an inspiring manifesto for wayward young adulthood. A beautifully written, introspective search for meaning and self-actualization, Little Weirds is presented as a collection...
★★★★☆ “Frankenstein” has entered our consciousness as an undead monster in a curious confusion of roles. Frankenstein was actually Victor Frankenstein, the man who created the monster in Mary Shelley’s eponymous masterpiece. Books, television,...
★★★★★ Hurricanes and nor’easters come and go leaving a trail of broken homes amid the debris of a lifetime of living and acquiring and they generate stories in their aftermath. Sometimes, as happened a...
★★★☆☆ It was the 1965 publication of Stonehenge Decoded by Gerald Hawkins that piqued this reviewer’s conscious interest in megaliths. The potential significance of Stonehenge and other structures noted therein opened my eyes, and...
★★★☆☆ In Speech and Debate competitions, there’s a technique used by debaters known as “the spread.” Instead of offering a pointed rebuttal to their opponent’s latest argument, a debater will attempt to overload the...
★★★★☆ The early 20th Century, creepy carnivals, gender-bending teenagers, outsider art: Rarely does a novel tick as many of my boxes on the back cover alone as Curious Toys by Elizabeth Hand. Set in...
★★★★☆ It’s not fair, but one expects perfection from Chris Ware. Author of Jimmy Corrigan, Building Stories, and the recent Monograph, he is one of the most celebrated living cartoonists. Ware transformed the literary...
