An Authentic World War II Mystery
Ed Ruggero’s Blame the Dead takes place during the Allied invasion of Sicily in August of 1943, an event that […]
Delightfully Perplexed and Transfixed by The Sacramento of Desire
Sacramento of Desire invites us to hang out as Bloch weaves—and to get woven in ourselves.
One Girl’s Heartbreaking Reality in World War II
Lyuba Khomut’s tale of survival is one of heartbreak and heroism, of betrayal and bravery. Bryon MacWiliams, chronicling the experiences […]
Local Doctor Doubles Down on Strange Fiction
The history of medicine runs deep in Philadelphia. You can go to the oldest hospital, medical school, and operating theater […]
Clever and Vigorous Our Age of Anxiety Leads to Many Pleasures
Clever, vigorous, Our Age of Anxiety, Henry Israeli’s latest collection, won the august White Pine Poetry Prize last year. Perhaps […]
Genre-Bender Carmen Maria Machado Jumps into Comics with The Low, Low Woods
The traditional formula for a gothic tale tends to go something along the lines of “woman + atmosphere = gothic”. […]
Add Delightful Prose to The Third Rainbow Girl’s Praises
I was a little annoyed with the New York Times last week. In their January 20, 2020 rave review of […]
An Honest and Raw Spiritual Journey
So Speak The Stars offers the rare chance for a reader to reflect alongside the writer. Written almost entirely in second […]
An Entertaining Mystery Grapples with the Brutal Truth of Slavery on a Fantasy Island
A beguiling experience, Kacen Callender’s Queen of the Conquered is at one and the same time a vacation on a tropical island, a voyage confronting the historical experience of slavery, and a delicate and nuanced exploration of the contemporary issue of what it may mean to be “woke.”
An Excellent and Important Analysis of Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia
Historian and native Philadelphian Timothy J. Lombardo contextualizes and explains Rizzo’s political career and his supporters’ motivations in his 2018 book Blue-Collar Conservatism: Frank Rizzo’s Philadelphia and Populist Politics.