Jonathan Lethem on realism and class
In an interview with Robert Birnbaum Jonathan Lethem tells us how he really feels: Look, let me be brutal. When you encounter the argument that there is a hiera...
Year: 2005
Book Sales Up and Down
In contrasting reports today, Publishers Weekly says overall book sales are up 1.9% in August, though for the year they are down 2.2%. In addition to that news,...
Links for an ex-leper
(Anyone know where the title bit comes from?) – James Mullaney in National Review Online reports on a longstanding action adventure series with conservati...
The Oracle Betrayed by Catherine Fisher
Continuing in my young adult fantasy vein (see here and here), The Oracle Prophesies is yet another YA fantasy trilogy which caught my eye. Like The Water Mirro...
Is the Label 'Jezebel' a Compliment?
Joking about The Prayer of Jabez, Russell Moore of Touchstone Magazine said, “that the feminist revisionists would respond with their own small devotional...
The Water Mirror by Kai Meyer
In case you haven’t figured it out yet I have rather eclectic tastes. I love to read a broad range of subjects and genres. I enjoy everything from history...