Book Review
Mexican Journal
"Mexican Journal" is a snapshot of a particular moment in North American life, captured from the perspective of an artist and an outsider. "Mexican Journal", the second volume in a three-volume series of the poet, artist, and...
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Thoughts on Driving to Venus
Ribbed paper, evocative language, and sculpted lines make "Thoughts on Driving to Venus" an interactive artistic experience of the highest order. Canadian artist Christopher Pratt’s transcribed “car books” are gathered together in...
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No Fixed Address
"No Fixed Address" is a rare treat as a travelogue, managing to be thoughtful, hilarious, and inspiring all at once. Ricocheting across continents in Jon Evans’s "No Fixed Address", a collection of his travel notes, is both an...
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South of Everything
Memphis minister Audrey Taylor Gonzalez’s first novel, "South of Everything", is a quintessentially Southern Bildungsroman that focuses on a young girl in postwar Tennessee as she navigates the spaces between black and white, the...
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Island of the Assassin
As a quick thriller with fascinating religious elements, "Island of the Assassin" snares interest and rushes relentlessly toward surprising conclusions. In Joseph Roccasalvo’s "Island of the Assassin", a curious priest becomes the...
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The Gail Force
Jake Travis distinguishes himself amongst other dynamic PIs in the genre via his pure zest for life, which often presents with a sensual edge. In "The Gail Force", the dangerously dashing Jake Travis is back, drawn into an intricate plot...
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My Radio Radio
Its pages are sharpened by contrasts—between the dull nature of a regimented religious existence, and the colorful needs of a young girl. In a communal home in a quiet Indiana town, between four walls painted in wildly different...
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The Lost Civilization of Suolucidir
Daitch’s novel is Indiana Jones for the introspective crowd—a continual, thrilling, and harrowing search for historical treasures. Beneath the sands of Iran lies a civilization lost millennia ago, rumored to have housed the lost...