Novels set in a distant time and in an unfamiliar place always appeal to me, novels like David Fulmer’s first three New Orleans mysteries: Chasing
Pilgrim’s Wilderness: A True Story of Faith and Madness on the Alaska Frontier As a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News, Tom Kizzia covered the
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East “We [the young men who won the war]
The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years More than fifty years after his untimely death, John F. Kennedy still fascinates us. Frederick Turner’s The
The Girl on the Road No, this is not a review of Monica Byrne’s fabulous The Girl in the Road (I’m working on that very
Because I grew to maturity during the Viet Nam conflict and because many of my male friends at the time were impacted by decisions about
Is Lisette’s List Susan Vreeland’s best novel to date? In my opinion, yes! Because I so admire Vreeland’s pictorial imagination, I have always enjoyed her
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World Alison Weir, author of fourteen books on Medieval and Renaissance Britain, has now written about nearly
Award-wining author Jacqueline Woodson’s Brown Girl Dreaming may have been published for middle and young adult readers, but this is a book for every reader,
Is there anything to be gained by reading another book about the World War II internment of Japanese Americans to relocation camps? If the book
BROWN GIRL DREAMING, Snapshots in verse The poetry of Brown Girl Dreaming fills pages like Polaroid snapshots, described through the nostalgic lens of a child
David Malouf’s novel, Harland’s Half Acre, features an Australian artist with surrealistic talent. Writing about Frank Harland, Malouf himself depicts his art and his settings
Heartbroke Bay: A Novel of Alaska To tell the story of Heartbroke Bay, an Alaskan fjord known locally as Lituya Bay and now part of
We Are Called to Rise When I began reading We Are Called to Rise, I was reminded of a pointillist painting. Four seemingly disparate narrators
Stone Cold by C. J. Box and The Precipice by Paul Doiron As I was reading and reviewing Paul Doiron’s first four Mike Bowditch mysteries
Cross-Pollinations: The Marriage of Science and Poetry How can an Amy Clampitt poem contribute to diabetes research? How can science lend the missing puzzle piece
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