It takes something special to get me to pick up a novel set at a […]
Commonplace book: June 2026
From “Think For Yourself,” by Dan Chiasson for The New York Review of Books: I […]
Harbour of Hungry Ghosts, by Eliza Chan
Au Kiamling may be one of the most stubborn characters I’ve ever encountered in fiction. […]
Long-delayed bookish things from the internet
Since I was traveling over the last two Sunday, I am woefully behind on sharing […]
Nightshade and Oak, by Molly O’Neill
Mallt Y Nos is a very busy deity in the days after the defeat of […]
The Eye of the Leviathan, by M.R. Carrick
M.R. Carrick reimagines Spain’s conquest of the Americas by placing a magical ocean filled with […]
The Witch Below the Dreaming Wood, by H.G. Parry
In the depths of the Blitz, Britons have started to dream of King Arthur. Everyone […]
Between Two Fires, by Christopher Buehlman
There has always been one time period and place I would never want to visit, […]
Persuasion, by Jane Austen
It was a delight to re-read Persuasion, by Jane Austen, along with some of the […]