Book Reviews
Review: Beautiful Bipolar
Utah-based writer Danielle Workman’s Beautiful Bipolar is an oddly charming glimpse into veering fear, resignation and radical hope. … read more
Review: Chimera
Julian Mihdi, the author of the debut fiction work Chimera, has a fun vocabulary. He allows this vocabulary to carry his stories from one to the next and does so successfully. … read more
Review: The Perspective Essays
The Perspective Essays covers a range of topics, some as ephemeral as complacency and others as immediately material as destitution. … read more
Review: Cover Stories
Perhaps I approached Cover Stories the wrong way. Perhaps I’d have “got it” if they’d called what they were doing by the vernacular: fanfiction. … read more
Review: Earning the Rockies
Framed around a cross-country trip east to west in mimicry of similar trips Kaplan took with his father, Earning the Rockies is more philosophy than narrative and more narrative than essay. … read more
Review: Beren and Lúthien
The drafts of this tale have been collected anew in Beren and Lúthien by their third son, Christopher Tolkien. Throughout them all is the common thread of Tolkien’s undying passion for the love of his life, Edith.
Review: Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from...
Other points of interest from Shock and Awe are the exploration of the Theatre of the Ridiculous and late glam’s fascination with authoritarian themes. … read more
Review: Dungeons & Dragons: Storm King’s Thunder
While most D&D campaigns begin in a relatively neutral or safe location, Storm King’s Thunder thrusts its participants straight into the adventure, setting them in a recently sieged village that’s being torn apart by goblins. … read more
Review: Lee Brilleaux: Rock ‘n’ Roll Gentleman
The story of the infamous pub rock/protopunk group Dr. Feelgood is really a tale narrated by the magnitude of Lee Brilleaux’s character. … read more
Review: Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones and Chelsea Horror Hotel
They are hopelessly like us with vulnerabilities, flaws and endless determination. Lobotomy: Surviving the Ramones and Chelsea Horror Hotel are must-reads. … read more