by Site Owner | Mar 26, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Horror, Science Fiction
No Rest for the Paranoid By Ramsey Campbell Tor, $25.99, 283 pages H.P. Lovecraft once noted that a horror story is only ever “a vivid picture of a certain type of human mood.” Ramsey Campbell, a renowned horror writer himself, references this comment on his webpage,...
by Site Owner | Feb 12, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Love, Loss, and Hot-Air Balloons By Jullian Barnes Alfred A. Knopf, $22.95, 128 pages “You put together two things that have not been put together before.” This refrain, slightly varied, begins each of the three chapters that make up Levels of Life, Julian Barnes’...
by Site Owner | Feb 6, 2014 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Biographies & Memoirs, History
A Literal Nomadic Life By Tim Cope Bloomsbury, $28.00, 528 pages In 2004, 25-year-old Australian Tim Cope struck out on horseback across the Eurasian steppe. His journey from Mongolia to Hungary, amounting to nearly 6,000 miles over three years, was inspired by the...
