5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (514+ words) Ambitious, lyrical and vast in scope, The Witches of Cambridge proves Alice Hoffman still has fresh spells to cast. The Witches of Cambridge It is not surprising that Alice Hoffman, author of Practical Magic (1995) and its sequels, would tackle another…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (301+ words) Meg Mason’s vivid Sophie, Standing There is a tribute to literature, relationships and the power of owning one’s experiences. Things aren’t going well for Sophie. Her husband has unceremoniously kicked her out: While she was in the shower, he announced…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (405+ words) Why do women have such a hard time saying no? Jezebel founder Anna Holmes argues that the power to refuse is a key to emotional well being. The Power of No In The Power of No: A Celebration, journalist Anna…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (524+ words) In his dark, disarming and very funny The Castle, Jon Ronson ventures into the manosphere to investigate masculinity in crisis. Rudyard Kipling’s 1910 poem “If” gives some simple advice on becoming a man: “If you can keep your head when all…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (377+ words) Chloe Benjamin’s Under Story is an expansive literary sci-fi tale balancing speculative physics with a deeply relatable story of love and grief. In Chloe Benjamin’s exquisitely imagined and emotionally rich Under Story, a woman moves to Antarctica in search of…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (389+ words) The Art of Charming a Changeling is a sweetly imaginative slice-of-life romantic fantasy where the fairies are real, the humans are odd and everyone is kind, albeit a little mischievous. The Art of Charming a Changeling Readers looking for a…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (413+ words) In Crocodilopolis, a saga of Costa Rica teetering on the edge of fascism, John Manuel Arias wields the power of myth to characterize a feud between two brothers. Latin American novelists have been writing cutting-edge family sagas for generations. From…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (219+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source Even before its first page, Katy Simpson Smith’s The Maltese Version lets the reader know that it will be a playful kind of novel. The table of contents divides the book into four…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (213+ words) Domingo’s deceased father returns to him in the form of a pigeon to help his son process his grief in Bless Me, Papi, a poignant meditation on bereavement, growing up and love that transcends every boundary. In 1999, 13-year-old Domingo José…...