by Site Owner | May 25, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Urban Fiction
Finding Connection and Meaning By George Minot Alfred A. Knopf, $25.95, 368 pages The title almost gives it away: George Minot’s Om Love is about a couple who meet and fall in love while practicing yoga. But with the next exhale, it must be exclaimed...
by Site Owner | May 22, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Short Stories
By Luis Negron, Translated by Suzanne Jill Levine Seven Stories Press, $13.95, 91 pages At the simplest level, Luis Negrón’s collection, Mundo Cruel, joins nine stories that examine homosexuality in Puerto Rico. But within a mere 91 pages, Negrón...
by Site Owner | Apr 15, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
By Mo Yan and Howard Goldblatt Arcade Publishing, $14.95, 290 pages Last year’s Nobel Prize winner, Garlic Ballads, is a pulpy, devastating look at humanity – both what it means to be a thinking, feeling human being, as well as what can happen...
by michaeld | Nov 20, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
A Colorful Time By Polina Olsen The History Press 19.99 157 pages The 1960s brought a wave of dramatic social fragmentation across the United States as the increasingly decaying standards of old created a growing need and desire for new, and Portland was...
by Site Owner | Nov 1, 2012 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
By Sigmund Brouwer Doubleday Religious Group 7.99 224 pages In this introduction to Sigmund Brouwer’s new series, Merlin’s Immortals, readers meet and journey through medieval England with 18-year-old Thomas, who escapes servitude at an abbey...
