Reviews
Ours to Reason Why
Elizabeth Stice reviews Why War? by Richard Overy (W.W. Norton & Company, 2024)
In Between Florida and Family
Sam Wilber reviews The Mango Tree: A Memoir of Fruit, Florida, and Felony by Annabelle Tometich (Little, Brown & Company, 2024)
Reflecting the past in the present
Michael Taylor reviews First Frost: A Longmire Mystery by Craig Johnson (Penguin Books, 2024)
In Which Girls Save the Day
Cecelia Larsen reviews Plain Jane and the Mermaid by Vera Brosgol (First Second, 2024) and Young Hag and the Witches’ Quest by Isabel Greenberg (Harry N. Abrams, 2024)
The Talented Mr. Swanson
Taylor Gaede reviews A Talent for Murder by Peter Swanson (William Morrow, 2024)
Bring us M.A.R.S*! *More Actual Research and Science
Matthew Sparacio reviews A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith (Penguin, 2023)
Rethinking American Girlhood Through Relatable Girls’ Fiction
Dixie Dillon Lane reviews Beyond Nancy Drew: U.S. Girls’ Series Fiction in the Twentieth Century by LuElla D’Amico and Emily Hamilton-Honey (Bloomsbury, 2024)
Literary Ascents and the Human Search for Meaning
Sarah Selden reviews Land of Milk and Honey: A Novel by C Pam Zhang
Fall in Love with a Doomed Arctic Explorer: Time Travel Edition
Larsen reviews The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
An Exquisite Chronicle of an Ordinary American Family
Jenifer Elmore reviews French Braid by Anne Tyler (Vintage, 2022)
The Rising Temperatures Before the French Revolution
Elizabeth Stice reviews The Revolutionary Temper: Paris, 1748-1789 by Robert Darnton
Lévy’s Vision
Michael Jimenez reviews The Will to See by Bernard-Henri Lévy (Yale University Press, 2023)
Alternate Histories: An Alternate History
Joel Harold Tannenbaum reviews Cahokia Jazz by Francis Spufford (Scribner, 2023)