by Don Messerschmidt | Jun 22, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020)
This unique novel comprising five interconnected parts has been described as audacious, stunning, deeply imagined, vividly observed, and “a great hymn to poor, scabby humanity.” It is a book full of Indians, from India, some of whom live abroad and have returned to...
by Sarah Hutchins | Apr 25, 2018 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Poetry, Portland Authors
Sunset in Wonderland “I am always doing this. Walking around the old neighborhood, always sixteen, moody and stealing cigarettes” (36). I read Wonderland by native-Portlander Matthew Dickman. I read not about a Portlandia-version. I read about a place...
by Sarah Hutchins | Jan 11, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Art, Design & Photography, Biographies & Memoirs, Books About Books
Rainer Maria Rilke’s inspirational prose and poetry is read aloud in Western yoga classes as teachers urge their students to find better ways of being not only on the mat but also in their day-to-day life. Who is the man behind the verse? What made him someone worthy...
by Ashley McCall | Dec 12, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction, Mystery, Crime & Thriller
It’s 1881. The International Cotton Exposition is coming to Atlanta. But across the city, leading black entrepreneurs are being brutally murdered, the letter M inscribed on their mutilated bodies. Former Atlanta police officer Thomas Canby, disgraced and relegated to...
by Howard Leighton | Aug 3, 2016 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, Nature, Outdoors & Animals, Sports & Recreation
[alert variation=”alert-info”]Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Formats: Hardcover, Paperback, eBook, Kindle Purchase: Powell’s | Amazon | IndieBound[/alert] Beginning with the first documentation of climbing a mountain in America (1642 –...