Dreamers of the Day
Dreamers of the Day is Mary Doria Russell’s novel that is as fresh if not fresher today than when first published in 2008. Mary Doria Russell’s Dreamers of the Day is as fresh and new today as when published in March 2008, and given the state of the world today, it may be even fresher, which […]
Station Eleven
Read a newspaper lately, in hand or online? War, famine, global warming and now Ebola — it’s no wonder publishers are publishing and readers are reading a near-glut of novels about the end of the world, or in more concise and even Biblical terms, all things apocalyptic. If the story is about what happens after […]
Zone One
Colson Whitehead, winner of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Whiting Writers’ Award, and a keen observer of the American way of life, has written a story widely identified as a zombie novel. This reader isn’t so sure, even though the undead, with their distasteful choice of food and their unpleasant appearance and odor, are part and […]