Book Review
Crazy Hawk
by Ben Linder
A kidnapping forces a warrior on a journey of discovery in the future-set Western novel "Crazy Hawk", an exhilarating story about love and family set in a postapocalyptic landscape. In R. J. Stewart’s intense postapocalyptic novel...
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To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause
by Ben Linder
Comprehensive and analytical, Benjamin Nathans’s "To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause" vivifies the Soviet intellectuals at the complex heart of the human-rights-oriented dissidence movement in the USSR. In the aftermath of the terror...
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Pathway to Glory
by Ben Linder
Greed undermines an ambitious man’s happy life in the the thrilling novel "Pathway to Glory". Set in 1960s New York, Edmund Schiavoni’s novel "Pathway to Glory" is a redemption story about money, family, and pride set against a...
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The Strophes of Job
by Ben Linder
A snowstorm plunges small-town families into horrifying situations in "The Strophes of Job", a novel founded on the visual terror of uncertainty. Evoking Greek odes, Ted Morrissey’s terrifying and uncanny novel "The Strophes of Job"...
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Juno's Song
by Ben Linder
In the spirited novel Juno’s Song, a writer awaiting an alien arrival overcomes his fear of death. Electrified and soulful, Michael Kelley’s novel Juno’s Song includes Buddhist meditations on death amid possible extraterrestrial...
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Madcap Dogs
by Ben Linder
Dogs are the catalysts for human tenderness and daring in the warm short story collection "Madcap Dogs". In Ron Chandler’s endearing short story collection "Madcap Dogs", canines bring the best out of their human companions. In these...
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The Reality Meltdown
by Ben Linder
In the imaginative science fiction novel "The Reality Meltdown", reality’s scaffolding is compromised by the discovery that “inanimate” materials experience sentience—and rage. In Dan Cray’s surprise-filled science fiction...
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Inheritance of Crises and Dysfunction
by Ben Linder
Inheritance of Crises and Dysfunction is an ambitious political novel in which a single man attempts to heal a fractured world. In James J. Maiwurm’s zigzagging political thriller Inheritance of Crises and Dysfunction, a retired lawyer...