GHOST TOWN, by Tom Perrotta Upon finishing Tom Perrotta’s new novel, “Ghost Town,” I found myself agreeably haunted by the corpulent specter of Harold Bloom: the...
But only in Hahn’s book could I have compared those two translations to understand this, which is symptomatic of the very fullness of the book. Hahn...
Gothic Fantasy Weavingshaw by Heba Al-Wasity Al-Wasity’s haunting and romantic novel follows Leena Al-Sayer, a young refugee woman who can see ghosts, and St. Silas, a...
MAKE BELIEVE: On Telling Stories to Children, by Mac Barnett Mac Barnett is an irrepressible creator of zany books for younger readers. Breezy, frisky romps, dozens...
The real value of this odd little memoir is not his dissent, but that it offers us something more unique: the story of a staff officer...
The Poetry Challenge Let’s learn one poem together this week. The Poetry Challenge See Full Poem & Readings Play Game We’ve come to the end of...
The Poetry Challenge Let’s learn one poem together this week. The Poetry Challenge See Full Poem & Readings Play Game Here we are on Day 4...
The result has been a terrible irony for a country that was founded as a refuge from intolerance: “How is it that the appeal to humanitarianism,...
The Poetry Challenge Let’s learn one poem together this week. The Poetry Challenge See Full Poem & Readings Play Game Now that we’ve memorized the first...
PERMANENCE, by Sophie Mackintosh Sophie Mackintosh’s novels are always speculative in some way, with either the author or her characters forging a world governed by its...
