The Underworld review: Sophie Laguna goes deep
In Sophie Laguna’s The Underworld, only child Martha is an introvert who is misunderstood by her family. Her…
A Whole New (Yet Familiar) World
Classic kids’ book peeks into 1950s Alameda If you find yourself at a loss for something to read,…
‘Ends Of The Earth,’ By Neil Shubin — Review
A gripping account of polar exploration written by a scientist who has devoted his entire career to identifying…
Football As Religion
In 2018, Rick Bass took the field as a member of the Texas Express, a semipro football team…
Networks of progress: On Carl Benedikt Frey’s ‘How Progress Ends’
Soren Kierkegaard once remarked that life is “lived forwards but understood backwards.” Carl Benedikt Frey, in “How Progress…
‘Painter’s Rebellion’: On Gündüz Vassaf’s call to resist silent conformity
Some books invite you into quiet contemplation and some books drag you, sometimes unwillingly, into the turbulence of…
Life Writing
Jonathan Lethem is concerned with time. Time as an element of narrative, yes: His new book, A Different…
The Unity Books children’s book review roundup for spring
The booksellers of Unity Books Auckland and Wellington review a handful of children’s books sure to delight and…
Murata Sayaka’s “World 99”: What It Means to Be Human
Murata Sayaka’s latest novel World 99, published in Japan in 2025, is set in a society disrupted by…
Toni Jordan’s engrossing page-turning saga
Tenderfoot – quick links Tenderfoot, Toni Jordan’s eighth novel, takes place in the suburban Brisbane of Joh Bjelke-Petersen…
There is gender bias in book reviews, says publisher Ritu Menon
New Delhi: In the 1990s, when Chitra Narayanan was a young journalist at Business Standard, her newspaper carried…
Review by Paul Di Filippo – Locus Online
A Catalog of Storms, Fran Wilde (Fairwood Press 978-1958880319, trade paperback, 256pp, $18.99) August 2025. Although Fran Wilde’s…