April 1, 2025

Your shoulder might twinge.

January 3, 2025

“Well,” I thought, “I guess this is it. Maybe I am finally trapped in an endless loop of Death Cab for Cutie albums and ambient mood playlists that I can never escape.”

February 29, 2024

I'm hunting for psalms.

October 20, 2023

Two years into the pandemic and I feel like a soft-shelled creature, creeping the ocean bottom wondering if it’s safe to rise from the depths yet. A goblin shark. An octopus cruising for whelks. The only proofs I have that time is passing are filled notebooks and a government notice warning my identification is nearly expired.

March 14, 2022

Half of you are deeply curious about whether prestige literary fiction is worth reading, and the other half want to know if the cute-looking books about robots and love after death are worth reading. Here are four tiny reviews to help you decide.

February 13, 2022

A valentine to a classic 19th century Russian novella, full of carriages and calling cards and penniless minor royalty whining to their much richer neighbours about money problems.

January 1, 2022

December 30, 2021

2021 in and around books

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