Fiction, Nonfiction, and Other Book Reviews
It happened not long after I made the South my home. I joined others in my book club for a meal at a local restaurant, a break from discussing assigned novels....
Winter Counts is a fiction story centered on Virgil Wounded Horse and his nephew Nathan, members of the Sicangu Lakota Nation. Virgil works as a private vigilante on the Rosebud Reservation...
The novel The Furrows was inspired by the death of Namwali Serpell’s sister and the reality that: …people do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of...
This is a story about an ogress. Like all ogres, she spoke little and thought much. She was careful and considerate. Her heavy feet trod lightly on the ground. [p. 1]...
Indian American author Nev March’s debut novel, Murder in Old Bombay, is the winner of the Minotaur Books/Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award and a nominee for both an...
These little nuggets of history that we don’t really talk about. We go to school, we learn all these facts….but we don’t learn these personal stories that become [the foundation for]...
I had an extremely difficult childhood and every day after school I’d go to the public library, which was my sanctuary. I learned early about the power of story and imagination...
Sikhism is a religion and philosophy founded in the Punjab region of the Indian subcontinent in the late 15th century. Its members are known as Sikhs. The Sikhs call their faith...
Is it the rolling of thunder that scares you?Is it the crashing of clouds that hold fear?But all I know as I sit in a corner aloneIt takes me back to...
It’s just a fantasyIt’s not the real thingIt’s just a fantasyIt’s not the real thingBut sometimes a fantasyIs all you need —-Billy Joel—- Wildwood, written by Colin Meloy, (the lead singer...
