In Maggie O’Farrell’s sterling Hamnet, she seeks to fill in the blanks of history to tell a deeply human story. … More Life and Death in the Margins: Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell
Is Larry McMurtry’s classic saga about a cattle drive from Texas to Montana the definitive American story? Or is its depiction of women, Native Americans, and the Old West problematic? … More Is Lonesome Dove the Great American Novel? A Pulitzer Prize Deep Dive
My comparison of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel Little Women and the movie adaptations from Gillian Armstrong and Greta Gerwig. How are they similar? How are they different? … More Book vs. Movie: Little Women
A comparison of Stephen King’s novel The Shining and Stanley Kubrick’s film adaptation. How are they similar? How are they different? … More Book vs. Movie: The Shining
Does Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker give a satisfying conclusion to the new trilogy of movies, or is it a terrific letdown for fans? … More Is Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker a Terrible Movie?
Let’s take a deep dive into the first trailer for No Time to Die, the latest 007 and Daniel Craig’s last outing as James Bond. … More No Time to Die Trailer Reaction
Here are my guesses for which Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winners I will love, which I will hate, and which will be middling at best. … More My Pulitzer Prize Project Predictions
A review/rant about Bianca Marais’ novel If You Want to Make God Laugh, an unintentionally offensive story about three women in post-apartheid South Africa. … More Here Comes a Book Rant
I’ve been sitting on this review for a while now because I keep turning it over and over in my head, and to be brutally honest, I’m trying to decide how much I actually like this book. Published in 1978, Dancer From the Dance is a perfect encapsulation of the gay subculture that thrived in … More My Deep Dive into Dancer from the Dance
Here are some LGBT+ focused books that I think everyone should read. … More Essential Queer Reads
