Lila Prime

Ray Nayler 's novella The Tusks of Extinction follows the consciousness of a scientist fighting elephant poaching, in her life before a...

Emily M. Danforth's Plain Bad Heroines   tells a deliciously convoluted and self-referential set of nested stories. The first layer of s...

I adored Maria Dahvana Headley 's Beowulf  and was curious to read her earlier novel, The Mere Wife , which draws on the story of Beowul...

Diana Wynne Jones ' Charmed Life is a children's fantasy book (apparently it is chronologically the third in a series of six ! alth...

Keigo Higashino 's The Miracles of the Namiya General Store is an odd novel, and one that came recommended by a friend and without any ...

Susanna Clarke 's Piranesi is a novel in the form of a series of journal entries; the character who is writing is, by turns, unreliable...

"In attempting to be completely faithful to real life, in all its true confusion and complexity, Joyce ended up writing a book that is ...

Tom Bissell's article on David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest says things I've never been able to express. I have loved Infinit...

The streets of Paris were quiet today, and fairly empty. I think people stayed in, or stayed out of the city. It was one of those surreal af...

An excellent book. Still. On this reread ( previously ), parts of it --- where, despite the genderless society and advancement-by-merit, eve...

The wonders of Earthsea continue with Ursula K. Le Guin 's The Tombs of Atuan . The second book in the loose series features another pro...

Ursula K. Le Guin 's A Wizard of Earthsea is a dollop of fantasy delight, a neat little story with tendrils sneaking out into a broader...

Today an attempt to add more [e]books to my magical futuristic pocket-library, and I received the shocking message that the device is full ....

Jeff VanderMeer 's Annihilation is a novel (part one of a trilogy ) which tries very hard to evoke a creepy atmosphere. It didn't w...

Phew and egads! I finished rereading Infinite Jest . Relief is accompanied by psychic emptiness, a hollow longing to experience the entire ...

Hilary Mantel's sequel to the incredible Wolf Hall is called Bring up the Bodies , and it continues the terse and sparse storytelling a...

"The Ink Readers of Doi Saket" by Thomas Olde Heuvelt is a delightful gem of a story. You can read it here or listen to it here ....

Ann Leckie's  Ancillary Justice  is a magnificent dollop of science fiction. It is ɛ-close to the Platonic ideal of a space opera --- I ...

Connie Willis' Doomsday Book is amazingly good. It features time-travelling Oxford historians of the future, rural English peasants of ...

This picturesque half-timbered building, subject to such immaculate preservation and dense precision gardening, is the birthplace...