Why Khaled Khalifa Chose to Stay in Syria
Khaled Khalifa’s Death is Hard Work is a searingly intelligent novel told from the perspective of the adult children of Abdel Latif as they transport their...
Khaled Khalifa’s Death is Hard Work is a searingly intelligent novel told from the perspective of the adult children of Abdel Latif as they transport their...
Night of the Living If the constellation of stars above your house looks like a woman skating across a lake you could name it that....
A Talented Mr. Ripley TV series is in the works, and I for one have a lot of feelings about that. I mean, there have been...
Short stories are a staple in the adult world of horror. There are loads of great anthologies, as well as journals and magazines, dedicated to the...
I don’t pay too much attention to point-of-view when I’m reading. If a book is good, a book is good! But third-person omniscient POV—when a story’s...
I recently took a flight across the country. Although flights can be uncomfortable, boring, even agonizing experiences in many ways (I’m thinking specifically of the restrooms),...
As a kid, I loved princess stories. I know, I know. But books like Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine, Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix,...
I’ve never been much of a book club person. By which I mean I’ve never been in anything most people would call a book club. I...
If you watch any content on YouTube, you’re probably aware of the overwhelming number of books by YouTubers that have been published in the last several...
For years, I’ve had a bit of a vendetta against umbrellas. I’m already fussing with a purse, a book, a jacket, and sometimes a laptop on...