by Whitney Smyth | Nov 12, 2019 | Featured
It is with great sadness that I must announce that I am no longer able to continue managing Portland Book Review to the degree that it deserves. I have been struggling with a series of interconnected illnesses over the last year, and it has finally reached the point...
by Whitney Smyth | Mar 19, 2019 | Columns, Featured, From the Editor
Some of you may have noticed a lack of posts for the last two weeks. Essentially, the most recent WordPress update completely broke the website’s back end as it no longer supports the current theme. For a while even the admins couldn’t access it enough to...
by Whitney Smyth | Feb 15, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Sponsored
Melissa M. Terra’s, The Professor in Children’s Literature: An Anthology, is a companion piece to her book, Picture-Book Professors: Academia and Children’s Literature, which was an in-depth look at how the children’s book industry has portrayed academia in literature...
by Whitney Smyth | Feb 6, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Books About Books, Sponsored
The publishing industry is a complicated and ever-evolving machine that many outsiders find to be completely confusing or a mysterious black box. However, for those interested in taking a peek behind the curtain, Cambridge University Press has started publishing a...
by Whitney Smyth | Jan 11, 2019 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Sponsored, War & Military
Paul Sutton is a bit of a wandering soul. Recently out of his tour during the Vietnam War, Navy Air Reserve, Paul is attempting to get back to a normal life. Yet, college and his girlfriend Mary don’t hold any charm for him, nothing really does… except for...