Thursday, October 8, 2026

Harriet Stark's THE BACILLUS OF BEAUTY

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Man, there are as many crashing disappointments as there are genuinely interesting moments in this strange relic of also-ran science fiction...
Saturday, September 12, 2026

Stephen Sherrill's THE MINOTAUR TAKES A CIGARETTE BREAK

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A pervading weary hopelessness threatens every page of this novel, and no surprise; it's hard to imagine anyone having a carefree and ch...
Friday, September 11, 2026

Elaine Vilar Madruga's THE TYRANNY OF FLIES (Tr by Kevin Gerry Dunn)

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Elaine Vilar Madruga demands only a little of her readers, at first: we must suspend our disbelief enough to accept that an island nation...
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Monday, August 24, 2026

Maria Judite de Carvalho's AND HOW HAVE YOU BEEN (Tr by Margaret Jull-Costa)

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To read and savor a story a day from And How Have You Been , Two Lines Press' latest and last collection of Margaret Judite de Carvalho...
Saturday, July 4, 2026

Brock Clarke's AN ARSONIST'S GUIDE TO WRITERS' HOMES IN NEW ENGLAND

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Before I'd burned down the Emily Dickinson House, they seemed to be normal, healthy, somewhat happy Americans who took vacations and gar...
Saturday, June 13, 2026

Bao Ninh's THE SORROW OF WAR (Tr Frank Palmos & Phan Thanh Hao, Narr James Langton)

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Kien himself would have been dead long ago if it had not been for the sacrifice of others; he might even have killed himself to escape the p...
Thursday, June 11, 2026

Jerrod Edson's THE BOULEVARD

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Not since Robert A. Heinlen*'s Job: A Comedy of Justice  gave us the jovial, folksy Devil in the person of Jerry Farnsworth has Old Nick...