Sure, January is the dreariest month and February is the shortest month, but I found no shortage of thought-provoking literary commentaries to enjoy while hiding indoors and warming my feet next my space heater. As temperatures plummeted and snowstorms raged outside, I kept my intellect warm with reviews, interviews, and roundups of popular and emerging books.… Continue reading
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In his genre-bending novel Appleseed, Matt Bell offers an ambitious take on the horror of a climate doomed past the point of saving. As he lays out three storylines that transcend the traditionally distinct categorizations of fantasy, fable, sci-fi, and climate fiction, readers are invited into a world whose slow destruction by forces of human greed and exploitation is painfully familiar.… Continue reading
This was a monumental year of change for me, but browsing through write-ups on literary topics has remained a pleasant cornerstone of my daily routine. From soul-bearing interviews with charismatic authors to recommendations for locale-specific books that transport curious readers overseas, here are my favorite book and author articles from the last two months of 2021.… Continue reading
Around 10AM on Saturday morning, my friend and I rise from our chairs in the bustling Cafe Bonjour near Boston’s Haymarket neighborhood and wander into the brisk December air. I note the sad state of my dry, crackled knuckles clasped around a to-go coffee cup, but my preoccupation with my drab winter appearance is quickly overtaken by the need to focus on my hectic surroundings.… Continue reading
When Halloween came around, I was looking for a book that would spook me without dipping too far into the realm of blood and gore, and let me tell you—this book hit the mark. Tana French builds an investigation of a young girl’s murder around an enigmatic detective duo, one of whom is harboring a soul-eating secret: as a child, two of his friends disappeared from the very same wood and have never been found.… Continue reading
