Category Archives: Reviews

Review: Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, … Continue reading

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Review: Liquid Snakes by Stephen Kearse

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: What if toxic pollutants traveled up the socioeconomic ladder rather than down it? A Black biochemist provides an answer in this wildly original novel of pollution, poison, and dark pleasure In Atlanta, Kenny Bomar … Continue reading

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Review: The Year’s Best African Speculative Fiction 2022 Edited by Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki, Eugen Bacon, and Milton Davis

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: This is the follow up to the highly acclaimed 2021 anthology described as containing “some of the most exciting voices, old and new, from Africa and the diaspora, published in the 2020 year.” The … Continue reading

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Review: Elogona by Samantha Kolesnik

Buy it Here: WeirdPunk Books, Amazon Synopsis: An evocative tale of sapphic love in a post-apocalyptic world dominated by religious zealots and supernatural monsters. Kolesnik’s Elogona transports readers to a time after the world’s end, when a long-dormant sea creature … Continue reading

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Review: My Weil by Lars Iyer

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: “Memorable characters make this a singular exploration of the human condition.” – Publishers Weekly A scathingly funny look at a group of quirky graduate students majoring in Disaster Studies who are forced to reconsider … Continue reading

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Review: Sonic Life by Thurston Moore

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the founding member of Sonic Youth, a passionate memoir tracing the author’s life and art—from his teen years as a music obsessive in small-town Connecticut, to the formation of his legendary rock group, … Continue reading

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Review: The Writing Retreat by Julia Bartz

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: A book deal to die for. Five attendees are selected for a month-long writing retreat at the remote estate of Roza Vallo, the controversial high priestess of feminist horror. Alex, a struggling writer, is … Continue reading

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Review: Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) by Sly Stone

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: Not many memoirs are generational events. But when Sly Stone, one of the few true musical geniuses of the last century, decides to finally tell hislife story, it can’t be called anything else. As … Continue reading

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Review: Holly by Stephen King

Buy it here: Bookshop, Amazon Synopsis: Holly Gibney, one of Stephen King’s most compelling and ingeniously resourceful characters, returns in this thrilling novel to solve the gruesome truth behind multiple disappearances in a midwestern town. “Sometimes the universe throws you … Continue reading

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Review: Not Forever, But For Now by Chuck Palahniuk

Buy it here: Amazon, Bookshop Synopsis: From the bestselling author of Fight Club comes a hilarious horror satire about a family of professional killers responsible for the most atrocious events in history and the young brothers that are destined to … Continue reading

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