- November 21, 2024
Margaret Atwood’s classic novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, has been adapted many times, including film, television, and opera, and this recent graphic novel by Renée Nault. Though initially published in 1986, this speculative dystopian novel has unsettling themes that ring true still today.
The story of an oppressed woman under an authoritarian religious government somehow makes for beautiful ...
Read more… - November 14, 2024
Jo and her family are reeling after the sudden death of Jo’s older sister, Audrey, who was athletic, popular, destined for a scholarship to the school of her choice, and the center of their collective universe. When Audrey mysteriously reappears after her burial and finds Jo, she is confused, cold, and content to stay in ...
Read more… - November 6, 2024
Mysticism by Simon Critchley
The British philosopher Simon Critchley and I share a heroine, it would seem, in Julian of Norwich, the plague-era anchoress whose record of the visions she experienced during a bout of near-fatal illness at age 30 just so happens to be the first known book by a woman writing in the English ...
Read more… - October 30, 2024
In this follow-up to Bowring’s debut The Road to Dalton readers return to her titular Northern Maine town five years after the events of the first novel, with the suicide of Bridget Frazier still sending ripples outward. Dr. Haskell is lost in a cloud of guilt. Bridget’s mother Annette is lost in booze and shopping ...
Read more… - October 24, 2024
When outsider Samantha gets invited to her fellow MFA student’s exclusive “Smut Salon,” everything changes. The cohort- who call each other Bunnies- are up to something weird, something Frankensteinian, that might involve drugs, monsters, and actual bunnies.
I didn’t think I was going to make this a staff pick, but I can’t stop thinking about it. ...
Read more… - October 16, 2024
A History of Ghosts, Spirits, and the Supernatural from DK Publishing
Halloween month is officially upon us, meaning that it is now our duty to get spooky. (Make no mistake: I fully endorse year-round spookiness, so if you were already creeping and crawling, by all means, carry on. Though I do object to the appearance of Halloween ...
Read more… - October 11, 2024
Books on Tap: Horror met October 10 to share favorite scary titles. Below is a list of favorite spine chilling horror, thrillers, dystopia, and sci fi.
The Handmaids Tale (novel and graphic novel) by Margaret Atwood
Parable of the Sower, Parable of the Talents, and Kindred by Octavia Butler
The Passage by Justin Cronin
All The Sinners Bleed by ...
Read more… - September 27, 2024
This is a fictional exploration of the wild feminine through motherhood and art through a doggie lens.
-Josephina, Accounting
Read more… - September 19, 2024
In this gripping work of narrative nonfiction, journalist John Vaillant introduces readers to the unpredictable nature of modern wildfires using the Fort McMurray fire in Alberta, Canada during May of 2016 as his chief illustrative example. Beginning at the beginning, Vallant first describes the rise of the fossil fuel industry in Alberta, its deep investment ...
Read more… - September 12, 2024
This historical fiction takes place after the end of World War II, in the throes of the scourge that was McCarthyism. It follows the denizens of a women’s boardinghouse in Washington, DC, who are from wildly different and sometimes mysterious backgrounds. The owner of the house and her children also have parts to play in ...
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