Master of Schlock and Awe
A review of Robert Wilson’s “Barnum”
Tag: Review
Time Travel Makes Love Possible in ‘Opposite of Always’
In Justin A. Reynold’s debut YA time-travel romance, Opposite of Always, Jack King is a high school senior who isContinue Reading
‘White Tears’ Thrills With Meditations on Ghosts, Race, and Music
Hari Kunzru’s ‘White Tears’ begins with the entitlement of record collecting and ends in a bloody ghost story. The book you begin to read is not the book you end with—in the most delectable sense.
‘Iceling’ Is YA Sci-Fi at its Most Engaging and Frustrating
Sasha Stephenson’s engaging but occasionally frustrating ‘Iceling’ opens sixteen years ago, when a team of scientists discover a bundle of abandoned human babies in the Arctic. As a work of YA genre fiction, it gets many things right.
The Artful Longing of ‘History of Wolves’
At the heart of History of Wolves is that one dangerous, damaged teenage girl we all knew when we were growing up.
Stephenie Meyer’s ‘The Chemist’ Suffers an Identity Crisis, But Is Movie-Ready
Stephenie Meyer, the author and movie producer of the tween vampire franchise ‘Twilight,’ has written a new novel billed as a thriller. But that genre designation doesn’t quite fit.
The Poems of ‘Tula’ Mesmerize Through Contradiction
In the foreword to Tula, Santiago defines the one-word title. Its etymology is complex: it can mean birdsong, music box, bellflower, tributary, a physical item or something more abstract, all depending on the language.
Blending Memory and Reality in ‘The Moravian Night’
A series of stories within a series of histories, The Moravian Night blends memories and actual events into an epic bard’s tale.
