Book Review
The Antipodean Express
by Kristen Rabe
"The Antipodean Express" is Gregory Hill’s breezy, engaging memoir about a three-month couple’s trip taken mostly by train, from New Zealand to Spain. This is an entertaining daily account of the 13,000-kilometer trip that the couple...
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The Good Walk
by Kristen Rabe
The cultural, political, and literary history of Western Canada is embodied in "The Good Walk", Matthew R. Anderson’s discerning account of three pilgrimages across traditional prairie trails. Anderson leads expeditions that trace the...
Book Review
Off the Tracks
by Kristen Rabe
Written during COVID-19 lockdowns, "Off the Tracks" is an enchanting, lyrical reflection on memory, travel, and passenger trains. In her engaging travel book, Pamela Mulloy describes COVID-19 as a time when we “all had to learn what...
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Arctic Traverse
by Kristen Rabe
"Arctic Traverse" is a captivating memoir about a fifty-eight-day trek across remote arctic terrain in northern Alaska. During his “990-mile summer,” Michael Engelhard backpacked and floated the length of the Brooks Range, from the...
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House of Open Wounds
by Kristen Rabe
An engrossing, imaginative novel set around an experimental hospital unit, "House of Open Wounds" explores weighty questions about the scars upon those who heal others. In a medical tent near the Palleseen battlefields, a dozen medics...
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Man's World
by Kristen Rabe
A timely reissue of Charlotte Haldane’s brilliant 1926 dystopian novel, Man’s World is set in a future where individual desires are sacrificed for communal good, women’s roles are prescribed, and genetic makeup is determined by...
Book Review
The Wings Upon Her Back
by Kristen Rabe
After a long career as a warrior, a determined woman questions her sacrifices and unwavering obedience to a charismatic leader in "The Wings Upon Her Back", Samantha Mills’s thrilling fantasy debut. Zenya’s community is organized...
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This Tenuous Atmosphere
by Kristen Rabe
Poetic, inventive, and spare, Maria S. Picone’s "This Tenuous Atmosphere" is a meticulous novella about a woman’s search for family and belonging. Asia feels like an outsider in her fantastical outer-space world. Orbiting Earth among...