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…...

1+ mon, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) Florence Hazrat’s clever, charming On the Mark celebrates punctuation and shows that it’s “a natural outgrowth of our evolution as a species.” In the tradition of Lynne Truss’ 2003 bestseller Eats, Shoots & Leaves, On the Mark is a playful book, one…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (207+ words) The audiobook of Katherine Arden's The Unicorn Hunters overflows with intrigue, magic and tantalizing romance. Katherine Arden’s latest historical fantasy, The Unicorn Hunters (13.5 hours) takes listeners to a version of late 15th-century Europe: one where magic holds sway. Anne is…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (172+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source Ray is largely out of the picture in the second of the three episodes, in which his irascible friend Pepper takes on a bodyguard gig for a shady art collector. When the payoff…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (258+ words) Add us as a Google Preferred Source Some nights, I dream that my dad comes back from the dead and everything goes back to normal. That is, until we both remember that this can’t be happening, and he must leave…...