Tag: novels

• Presence & Absence

  Jan 8

  Since 2011, I’ve had a tradition of reading a book by a single author on Christmas Eve. Initially, that was John Steinbeck; now, it’s Muriel Spark. In 2025, that reading… more ›

• A Digression I’m almost certainly cutting from a review of Tara Isabella Burton’s “Here in Avalon”

  Nov 29

  As the subject suggests: (Digression: Caleb is the worst. There’s an Achewood strip from 2003 wherein one character describes himself as follows: “I feel like I should be in some… more ›