Some books, reviewed

Smoketown by Tenea D. Johnson Smoketown is an unusual book in several ways. It takes place in the not-too-far-distant future and is neith...

Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson Just to get this out of the way: I suspect more of you have read Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys than Nalo Hopk...

Angle of Repose by Wallace Stegner This is, I suppose, not Wallace Stegner's fault, but if the book had been written by a woman, it w...

Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal by Abigail Carroll At some point in my adult life, I learned that not every culture had...

The Steel Spring by Per Wahlöö I picked up this book on the sale table at Book Culture. My knowledge of Scandinavian crime lit consists sole...

Mothership: Tales from Afrofuturism and Beyond Edited by Bill Campbell and Edward Austin Hall This is a book I was interested in reading...

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer There are only a few writers currently publishing whose books I buy as soon as they come out. Of those, J...