by Seniye Groff | Jul 21, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Saints for All Occasions is not your typical hard-luck Irish immigrant story. Nora and Theresa Flynn leave their quintessential existence in small-town Ireland to move to Boston. They are not penniless or homeless. Nora is set to marry Charlie and Theresa dreams of...
by Dick Weissman | Jul 17, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Current Events & Politics, Social Science
Periodically we hear about wealthy multi-millionaires and billionaires establishing foundations in order to give away substantial chunks of their wealth during their lifetime, or after they pass on. Callahan points out that there is nothing new about this, and he...
by Norman West | Jun 28, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Science Fiction, War & Military
The South does rise again. With pretty much the same result, but the author has imagined a world quite different from the one we know, as a backdrop for this tale of desperate circumstance and savage people. The war is precipitated by the Sustainable Future Act that...
by Philip Rafferty | Apr 18, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Sam Shepard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than fifty-five plays and three short story collections. As an actor, he has been in over sixty films and was nominated in 1984 for an Academy Award for his role in The Right Stuff. The One Inside is...
by Sarah Hutchins | Mar 24, 2017 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction, Short Stories
Alexander Pushkin’s great-great-great-granddaughter, Englishwoman Marita Phillips, wrote an opera – Pushkin: Poet and Czar – that just debuted in Moscow on February 4, 2017, according to The New York Times article by Neil MacFarquhar. The opera captures...