by Site Owner | Sep 8, 2012 | Tweens
Finally, For Girls By Barry Deutsch Amulet Books, 144 pages, $15.95 If there’s one thing the contemporary world of comics lacks, it’s books for young girls. Thankfully, Hereville: How Mirka Got Her Sword came along. The heroine of the tale is Mirka, a...
by Site Owner | May 12, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Jesse Ball Vintage Books, $15.00, 194 pages When you open The Curfew, the first thing you’ll notice is the stylistic invention of the prose. Instead of being a flow of paragraphs, it’s told through chunks of text divided into short chapters, sometimes only a page...
by Site Owner | Dec 22, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels
by Stan Sakai Dark Horse Comics, $9.95, 190 pages Comics for children don’t get much better than Stan Sakai’s labor of love, Usagi Yojimbo. In the many years it’s been around, it’s developed a well-deserved adult fan base as well. For those who may not have heard of...
by Site Owner | Oct 1, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Comics & Graphic Novels, Portland Publishers
By John Jackson Miller, Dark Horse Books, $18.99, 152 pages “Their masters killed them! They were standing right there–their sabers drawn!” Set roughly 4,000 years before A New Hope, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic Vol. 1 Commencement isn’t...
by Site Owner | Sep 29, 2011 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
by Robert Walser New York Review of Books, $14.00, 145 pages With the new translations by Susan Bernofsky, Robert Walser is finally able to join the canon of beloved and eccentric European writers like Fernando Pessoa, Bruno Schulz, and Franz Kafka. Americans should...
