Book Review
Bunker Mentality
by Ben Linder
Asked to maintain an impossible level of vigilance against nuclear threats, Cold War–era soldiers are pushed to their limits in the biting historical novel "Bunker Mentality". In Copernicus Paul’s razor-sharp historical novel "Bunker...
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Holiday Spirit
by Ben Linder
Outcasts and monsters in love struggle to triumph over evil in the revealing horror novel "Holiday Spirit". Both violent and empathetic, John DeGuire’s novel "Holiday Spirit" is populated by a pantheon from the history of horror...
Book Review
Uncommon Weather
by Ben Linder
In Richard Chiappone’s dark and humorous short story collection "Uncommon Weather", people battle isolation, boredom, and existential anxiety. These twelve intricate stories are set in Alaska’s small towns and vast wildernesses and...
Book Review
Jawbone Holler
by Ben Linder
A humble farm boy leaves home to become a noble American hero in the moral-minded historical novel "Jawbone Holler". "Jawbone Holler" is Mace Thornton’s gripping historical novel in which decent people build their lives in the American...
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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"...