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Book review: A deep dive into one of science’s great unknowns: Extraterrestrial life
The Bulletin· 6 hours agoOf all the unknowns in science, the greatest may be extraterrestrial life. Despite stunning advances...
Book Review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships
Associated Press· 2 days agoWho means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection...
Book Review: Coming-of-age meets quarter-life crisis in Fiona Warnick's ambitious debut 'The Skunks'
Associated Press· 2 days agoUsually when I see a book described as an “ambitious debut” I read it as a cop-out. “The Skunks” is...
Book Review: 'City In Ruins' Completes A Masterful Don Winslow Trilogy
The Greeneville Sun· 6 hours agoAs "City in Ruins" opens, former mobster Danny Ryan is a silent partner in two Las Vegas casinos. He is fabulously rich but wants more. Why? Because money is power,
Chicago area’s independent bookstores see revival
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 hours agoCHICAGO — Renting out a Lincoln Park brownstone for $200 may be considered unusual, but a 300-year-old vampire who wears three-piece suits and enjoys...
Book review: 'Liquid, Fragile, Perishable' by Carolyn Kuebler - Addison Independent
The Addison County Independent· 6 days agoThere are so many things in Carolyn Kuebler’s “Liquid, Fragile, Perishable” that ring true. The cast...
The Teenage Witches Are Growing Up
New York Times· 1 hour agoAmal El-Mohtar is the Book Review’s science fiction and fantasy columnist, a Hugo Award-winning writer and the co-author, with Max Gladstone, of “This Is...
Book review: ‘The Hope ‘91 Sled Dog Race’ brings an audacious but improbable event to life on the...
Anchorage Daily News· 4 days ago“Hope 91 International Intercontinental Sled Dog Race, a most improbable, impossible attempt at sled...
Can a 50-Year-Old Idea Save Democracy?
New York Times· 1 hour agoThe economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler thinks so. In “Free and Equal,” he makes a vigorous case for adopting the liberal political framework laid...
Military Book Review Contrasts in Command: The Battle of Fair Oaks, May 31 - June 1, 1862
Strategy Page· 21 hours agoIn this fresh look at the opening round of the two-day Battle of Fair Oaks (also known as Seven Pines), author Vignola opens by arguing that most past treatments on the fight were based chiefly ...