Ben Linder, Book Reviewer

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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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"... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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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... Read More

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