Meg Nola, Book Reviewer

Book Review

Fighting Back

by Meg Nola

Progressing at the taut pace of an espionage novel, "Fighting Back" is the engrossing biography of a defiant, passionate Jewish American soldier. Jeffrey and Craig Weiss’s gripping biography "Fighting Back" explores the brief yet... Read More

Book Review

The Fire That Makes Us

by Meg Nola

A traumatized psychologist’s story is used to illuminate and humanize general therapeutic guidance in the soothing allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us". In Shahrzad Jalali’s Jungian allegorical novel "The Fire That Makes Us", a... Read More

Book Review

Behind The Mirror

by Meg Nola

A woman explains her personal successes to a journalist in the reflective novel Behind the Mirror. In Bridget Budd’s inspiring novel Behind the Mirror, a woman with lifelong emotional challenges explains her gradual process of personal... Read More

Book Review

The Unrepentant

by Meg Nola

Insurgency and sociopolitical revolution link those fighting for freedom in Sharmini Aphrodite’s luminous short story collection, "The Unrepentant". Set in twentieth-century Malaya, the book’s fourteen stories share a tone of... Read More

Book Review

Hymn to Moray Eels

by Meg Nola

Mireille Best’s multifaceted novel "Hymn to Moray Eels" is about queer attraction, social expectations, and the intricacies of women’s friendships in 1950s France. Adolescence made sixteen-year-old Mila feel exposed and vulnerable.... Read More

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