Lynne Kelly’s Song for a Whale
Reviewed by Kimberly Christensen Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly Middle Grade Fiction Sometimes a book just stops you … Continue reading →
Category Archives: Contemporary
Weather, Jenny Offill
The mammoth threat of climate change looms large over the ephemera of modern life in this novel filled with dread … Continue reading →
Strange Birds, Celia C. Pérez
Selected as one of our January features for Turning the Tide: The Youngest Generation, Strange Birds: a field guide to … Continue reading →
Sool, Cho Dharman
According to Times India, Tamil writer Cho Dharman won the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2019. The novel is a “burning … Continue reading →
Ned Hayes’ The Eagle Tree
The Eagle Tree by Ned Hayes (Little A, 2016) Young adult contemporary fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen To say that … Continue reading →
Ghost Species, James Bradley
We originally published this news on October 25, 2019: James Bradley tweeted the cover reveal of his May 2020 novel, … Continue reading →
An Invite to Eternity, Gary Budden and Marian Womack, et al.
Humanity is facing a challenge if a magnitude ever before seen, compromising new anxieties we are at times unable to … Continue reading →
Mountains Piled Upon Mountains, Edited by Jessica Cory
Click here to return to the series The global novel exists, not as a genre separated from and opposed to … Continue reading →
Sarah R. Baughman’s The Light in the Lake
The Light in the Lake by Sarah R. Baughman (Little Brown, 2019) Middle Grade Fiction Review by Kimberly Christensen In … Continue reading →
Wolfe Island, Lucy Treloar
Part western, part lament for a disappearing world, Wolfe Island (set off the northeast coast of the US) is a transporting novel … Continue reading →