Book Review
St. Joseph's College
by Anna Call
This exhaustive, occasionally playful account chronicles one religious college’s struggle to make a name for itself in a more established and secular academic setting. St. Joseph’s College by Kenneth Munro, an intricate historical...
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Living Colorful Beauty
by Anna Call
"Living Colorful Beauty" is a twisted, intensely character-driven ride. In "Living Colorful Beauty", author Jonathan Harnisch tells the story of Ben, a man diagnosed with Tourette’s syndrome, schizoaffective disorder, and several other...
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Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?
by Anna Call
"Are the Androids Dreaming Yet?" should not be missed. This is one piece of popular science that has “classroom” written all over it. In this hefty examination of creativity, free will, and the meaning of humanity, engineer James...
Book Review
Lotería Huasteca
by Anna Call
This is celebration sincere and genuine, an appreciation by an artist whose love for his art and for his subject shines through every print. Categorizing Alec Dempster’s "Lotería Huasteca" as an art book is tricky. Nominally a book of...
Book Review
How to Talk to an Alien
by Anna Call
This discussion of ufology will help alien communicators successfully say, “Take me to your leader.” How would extraterrestrials communicate? Would they prefer to read our minds or to learn our languages and communicate on our level?...
Book Review
Down
by Anna Call
Psychological as well as physical horror elevates this sci-fi thriller to a disturbingly exciting level. Mo Rees, employee of the BathyTech mining company, gets the adventure he always craved when the dashing scientist Armin Savage-Hall...
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Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman
by Anna Call
Alongside a portrayal of mobsters clinging desperately to their masculinity, Yates reveals the nonsense of violence and revenge. The assassins: two hit men from North Carolina. The target: a Hoosier farmer named Yorkie Goodman. The...
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The Drunken Spelunker's Guide to Plato
by Anna Call
Plato’s Cave is a dive bar in this allegory of an allegory, where love, loss, and motherhood force a bartender to come of age. An ode to the process of finding oneself in the fray of love and loss that is early adulthood, The Drunken...