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An uncomfortably weird tale of girlhood in a post-Soviet land
Daily Telegraph· 4 days agoIn an especially confusing example of Smith’s mirroring, the almost-daughter and her family are...
10 rules for reading from someone who does it for a living
Portland Press Herald· 5 days agoWhere to read, when to read and why you need a pencil in hand: The Washington Post’s Michael Dirda...
Review | Paying tribute to the writer who got us all saying ‘Kafkaesque’
Washington Post· 7 days agoFranz Kafka died on June 3, 1924, at the age of 40. Just think of the first sentence of “The Trial”:...
New Downtown Memphis bookstore aims to be a 'powerful space': A look inside DeMoir Books
The Commercial Appeal via Yahoo News· 2 days agoDeMoir Books & Things...Open on Main" program, which provides financial incentives to pair emerging...
St. Thomas Aquinas and Flannery O’Connor: Shedding Light on True Influences on American’s Gothic...
National Catholic Register· 3 days agoBOOK PICK: ‘Understanding the Hillbilly Thomist’
’Samsara’ Director Lois Patiño on His Playful Shakespearian Pic ‘Ariel’, Backed by RTP in Portugal,...
Variety via Yahoo News· 7 days agoLois Patiño, one of the leading lights of the New Galician Cinema in Spain, is putting the final...
What to Read When You’re Out of Ideas
The Atlantic· 1 day agoHaving a creative block is an invisible psychological torment. This romp of a novel captures—for better or worse—the precise feeling of suffocation that...
‘McVeigh’ Review: Alfie Allen Impresses In This Chilling Account Of The Radicalization Of The...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 6 days ago“We have to do something,” says one of the many shadowy extremists who populate the fringes of Mike...
The British Countryside’s Forgotten History of Slavery
Foreign Policy Magazine· 5 days agoHere, giant cliffs face the sea; beyond it lies the Atlantic and North America. Today this is an...
Federal appeals court weighs lifting Iowa school library book ban
Quad-City Times· 2 days agoA federal appeals court heard arguments Tuesday about whether to uphold a lower-court ruling...