"Book Review" Blogs & Blog Posts

Other People's Words, by Lissa Soep, has me finding memories of loved ones in unexpected places and times. What if the great love of your life is friendship? In their twenties, Lissa Soep and her boyfriend forged deep friendships with two other coup...

T Kingfisher's Thornhedge is a fantastic fairy tale turned on its head. I would hate to spoil even a moment of this fantastic but too short, fairy tale. This T Kingfisher story has a lightness to it and is filled with enough innocent hope to brighte...

When I decided to write my tips books for Make: (Tips & Tales from the Workshop, Vol. 1 & Vol. 2) and to create a subsequent tips newsletter, I had a very specific mix of elements in mind. I wanted the content to be educational, useful, but I...

Last week, I received an email from a PR firm about a new graphic novel pitched as "What We Do In The Shadows meets Monster Squad." Of everything that came in over the transom, this one piqued my interest. — Read the rest...

"To go from Einstein to Musk in only five volumes is surely an indication that humanity isn't sending Isaacson its best," writes The Guardian's Gary Shteyngart in his dismissive review of Walter Isaacson's new biography of Xitter tycoon Elon Musk.

Bridge: A Novel of Suspense is a novel that absolutely deserves its seemingly superfluous sub-title. The latest book from Shining Girls author Lauren Beukes, Bridge pulls off a similar track to that rightly acclaimed novel by spinning a pulse-poundin...

Most online accounts of Ernst Kaltenbrunner and Albert Speer mention that they were convicted at the Nuremberg trials but few accounts mention the testimony and evidence provided by Francisco Boix that enabled those convictions. Nor do they mention t...