The skill and the purpose to reading and writing fiction is the ability to empathise with the inner lives of creatures outside of ourselves. This …
Book review: Only rhe Animals by Ceridwen Dovey
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Book review: Small Spaces by Sarah Epstein
This novel was highly-recommended by several of my well-read friends, and the clincher finally came when one of them gave me the book as a …
Book review: Defying Doomsday, ed. Tsana Dolichva
Defying Doomsday is a riveting collection of short stories of individuals with disabilities or chronic illnesses surviving the apocalypse, the premise for the collection being …
Book review: Portable Curiosities by Julie Koh
Julie Koh’s first full-length collection of short stories, Portable Curiosities, is a strange journey through an unsettling landscape of curious characters in familiar but altered …
Book review: The Sinkings by Amanda Curtin
I had very high hopes of this book, and I was not disappointed. Curtin applies her trademark historical research skills lavishly, and although at times …