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The Raised Blade by Katherine Dunn There came a day I was in no way prepared for. Fifteen years had passed since I had seen Sam...

Lynn Steger Strong writes characters that haunt me. The narrator of her novel Want is a woman who feels so acutely the demands of being a...

One of the projects on my never-ending to-do list is to update my reading journal. I keep a notebook of every single book I’ve ever read,...

When I think of mysteries, I think of the typical detective procedural story. A tragedy-shrouded, unhinged detective gets too invested in a hard-to-crack case but perseveres...

The God of War reboot on PlayStation 4 was a massive success in 2018. Now its sequel, God of War: Ragnarok is hitting PlayStation 4 and...

Every November, cinephiles the world over celebrate Noirvember, created by critic Marya E. Gates, by watching and discussing film noir. As I write this, it is...

In 2021, the proposed reality TV show The Activist ruffled a lot of people’s feathers, particularly in the nonprofit sector. The basic premise was that activists...

World War II might be the most written-about period in literature. Within this subgenre (because at this point, I believe it can be well and truly...

Joe Meno’s new novel, Book of Extraordinary Tragedies, is told through the eyes of twentysomething musician Aleks, who is the product of a gifted, exceedingly odd family and—in an...