If the importance of book cover design was ever in question, the art for Jeremy P. Bushnell’s debut novel, The Weirdness, should put all doubt...

In preparation for Iceland Writers Retreat, I am reading books by each of the featured authors. It feels a little weird to review authors who...

A modern, English-language opera about a woman fighting bureaucracy sounded like a painfully tedious proposition – too much like my real life. But I attended The Consul at...

In the introduction to My Kind of Place, Susan Orlean confesses that she loves to travel – even to places that don’t sound wonderful. When...

This year, I am trying to learn from my blog stats, but as usual, in January I was distracted by the more creative search terms...