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Book Review: The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood
The Handmaid’s Tale, by Margaret Atwood, is a masterclass in worldbuilding. Most authors would have detailed the story’s premise—or at...
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Book Review: The Revenant, by Michael Punke
Michael Punke’s The Revenant is brutal, gripping, and perhaps too historically accurate for its own good. The story starts with a...
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Book Review: Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon
Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon, is (far) more than just A Connecticut Yankee in King Author’s Court plus Scots and sex. But there’s some...
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Book Review: Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott
Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life is more an example of good writing than a manual for how to produce it....
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Book Review: Neverwhere, by Neil Gaiman
In Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere, Richard Mayhew is yanked out of his ordinary London existence when he finds a girl bleeding in the streets....
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Book Review: The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco
On the surface, Umberto Eco’s The Name of the Rose looks like Sherlock Holmes in a 14th-century Italian abbey. There’s a murder mystery;...
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Book Review: And I Darken, by Kiersten White
And I Darken is the perfect title for Kiersten White’s novel about Vlad the Impaler’s origins. The plot (eventually) focuses on...
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Book Review: 1493, by Charles Mann
“Columbus’s voyage did not mark the discovery of a new world, but its creation.” So claims Charles Mann in his impressive 1493:...
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Book Review: Wizard and Glass, by Stephen King
Wizard and Glass, the fourth installment in Stephen King’s Dark Tower series, might have the strangest structure of any novel I’ve read....
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Book Review: Ghost Talkers, by Mary Robinette Kowal
All too often, soldiers make the ultimate sacrifice. But what if death didn’t relieve them of their duties? What if the fallen still had...
