Book reviews

Book review: Pulled noodles, pulled heartstrings in Annalee Newitz’s Automatic Noodle

Book review: Pulled noodles, pulled heartstring...

Chris Greer

We’ve all been told robots will take our jobs. What if they taught us how to resist instead?

Book review: Pulled noodles, pulled heartstring...

Chris Greer

We’ve all been told robots will take our jobs. What if they taught us how to resist instead?

Book review: Katabasis takes us deep into the underworld of the mind

Book review: Katabasis takes us deep into the u...

Chris Greer

Like the stinging wasps in Dante’s Inferno, something needled me as I read Katabasis, the latest from R.F. Kuang, academic and best-selling author of Yellowface, Babel, and The Poppy War...

Book review: Katabasis takes us deep into the u...

Chris Greer

Like the stinging wasps in Dante’s Inferno, something needled me as I read Katabasis, the latest from R.F. Kuang, academic and best-selling author of Yellowface, Babel, and The Poppy War...

Book review: Belching bishops and domestic affairs in The Pilgrimage by John Broderick

Book review: Belching bishops and domestic affa...

Chris Greer

In 1961, Catholic doctrine heavily influenced Irish law. Books were banned for contradicting social mores. The Pilgrimage, with its extramarital affairs, homosexual liaisons, belching priests, and critique of miracle cures,...

Book review: Belching bishops and domestic affa...

Chris Greer

In 1961, Catholic doctrine heavily influenced Irish law. Books were banned for contradicting social mores. The Pilgrimage, with its extramarital affairs, homosexual liaisons, belching priests, and critique of miracle cures,...

Book review: The many contradictions of Mark Twain

Book review: The many contradictions of Mark Twain

Chris Greer

Over the course of Ron Chernow’s lengthy (and I mean lengthy) new biography of Mark Twain, the titular subject comes to feel like a beloved house guest who overstays his...

Book review: The many contradictions of Mark Twain

Chris Greer

Over the course of Ron Chernow’s lengthy (and I mean lengthy) new biography of Mark Twain, the titular subject comes to feel like a beloved house guest who overstays his...

Review of “Perspectives” by Laurent Binet: Renaissance Scandal Meets Modern AI Concerns

Review of “Perspectives” by Laurent Binet: Rena...

Chris Greer

Nasty rumours, intricate plots, boldfaced lies, declarations of love, and accusations of murder—letters containing all theseflit across Renaissance Italy in Laurent Binet’s epistolary “Perspectives” (translated by Sam Taylor, 2023).

Review of “Perspectives” by Laurent Binet: Rena...

Chris Greer

Nasty rumours, intricate plots, boldfaced lies, declarations of love, and accusations of murder—letters containing all theseflit across Renaissance Italy in Laurent Binet’s epistolary “Perspectives” (translated by Sam Taylor, 2023).

Book review: Vampires and vengeance in The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Book review: Vampires and vengeance in The Buff...

Chris Greer

You haven't read a book like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter before. This captivating, disturbing blend of vampire mythology and Indigenous history offers something new to the horror genre. Released on...

Book review: Vampires and vengeance in The Buff...

Chris Greer

You haven't read a book like The Buffalo Hunter Hunter before. This captivating, disturbing blend of vampire mythology and Indigenous history offers something new to the horror genre. Released on...