Reviews
From the Stacks: Islands and Beaches
From the Stacks: Elizabeth Stice explains what is great about Islands and Beaches: Discourse on a silent land: Marquesas 1774-1880 by Greg Dening (The Dorsey Press, 1980).
Bob Dylan and the Solid Rock
Michael Jimenez reviews Bob Dylan: Prophet Without God by Jeffrey Edward Green (Oxford, 2024)
Always let your imagination be your guide?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Awake! William Blake and the Power of the Imagination by Mark Vernon (Hurst & Co., 2025)
A note from our Book Club Editor and information for the “Wuthering Heights” sessions
A word from Sarah Linville, our Book Club Editor, and the information you need for the Wuthering Heights book club.
Clop-clop-clip-clop
Brody Eldridge reviews Tom's Crossing by Mark Z. Danielewski (Pantheon Books, 2025)
A reading from “A Christmas Carol”
It’s Christmas day and you haven’t missed it! Enjoy an excerpt from A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens.
Regarding the Pain of Others in the American Revolution
Matthew Sparacio reviews Under Alien Skies: Environment, Suffering, and the Defeat of the British Military in Revolutionary America by Vaughn Scribner (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).
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The Dangers of a Single Story
Sarah Linville reviews Dream Count by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Knopf, 2025).
Attention! At Ease! Florida’s Military Role Preceded Disney World
Roger Chapman reviews State of War: A History of World War II in Florida by Anthony D. Atwood (University Press of Florida, 2025)
Fatalism and Family Life
Zoë Kaufmann reviews Killing Stella by Marlen Haushofer, translated by Shaun Whiteside (New Directions, 2025)
A smoke-ringed mirror
Elizabeth Stice reviews House of Smoke: A Southerner Goes Searching for Home by John T. Edge (Crown Publishing, 2025).
It’s Complicated
Elizabeth Stice reviews Against the Machine: On the Unmaking of Humanity by Paul Kingsnorth (Thesis, 2025).
The Dunnes: Literary Family Royalty
Michael Jimenez reviews The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir by Griffin Dunne (Penguin, 2024).
A Feral Child and the Fringes of Human Knowledge
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Forbidden Experiment: The Story of the Wild Boy of Aveyron by Roger Shattuck, with introduction by Jed Perl (New York Review of Books, 2025).
Composing the Revolution Across the Atlantic
Matthew J Sparacio reviews The Painter’s Fire: A Forgotten History of the Artists Who Championed the American Revolution by Zara Anishanslin (Harvard University Press, 2025).
Illustrated Breadcrumbs
Brody Eldridge reviews Hansel and Gretel by Stephen King, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak (Scribner, 2025).
Don’t Buy This Jacket… Do Read This Book?
Elizabeth Stice reviews Dirtbag Billionaire: How Yvon Chouinard Built Patagonia, Made a Fortune, and Gave It All Away by David Gelles (Simon & Schuster, 2025)