Language and plot in Marlon James’ Black Leopard, Red Wolf are locked in a mighty struggle of structure and meaning versus intensity and immediacy. From the beginning this struggle manifests in the stories Tracker, the main character, relates to his apparent captor… Read More ›
As a high school teacher, I have complete control over my small classroom library. Among the hand-me-downs, library leftovers and nobody-teaches-me-anymore books are carefully placed titles for reluctant readers. These are the books students who never read come back to… Read More ›
The grand unified theory of everything, of course, is that aliens are secretly ruling the planet, controlling our destiny and tracing their influence back to the origin of mankind, itself. The concept of monsters is their entrypoint into the secret… Read More ›
At the end of Gregory’s novella, you feel as though the story itself is a gift. Something from someone who wants to show you the best of what you, or maybe all of us, could become.
The House of Mouse is a juggernaut that is consuming all media one layer at a time. I take my son, who is 13 months old, to the mall to walk in the high heat of summer, and I pass… Read More ›
Joe: Aliens and the Old West is this week’s theme. Okay, so the Old West was a place that never actually existed. I live in Texas, okay? I grew up here since the 2nd grade, and have lived here most… Read More ›
As a high school teacher, I have complete control over my small classroom library. Among the hand-me-downs, library leftovers and nobody-teaches-me-anymore books are carefully placed titles for reluctant readers. These are the books students who never read come back to… Read More ›