• Review: Rumble Club

    Rumble Club is in many ways your typical casual multiplayer game that relies on simple mechanics and slapstick comedy to deliver the fun.

  • BOOK REVIEW: 'Did It Happen Here?'

    The question of whether fascism threatens American democracy became a liberal preoccupation from the moment Donald Trump announced his run for the White House.

  • Book Review – Star Wars: The Living Force

    Ricky Church reviews Star Wars: The Living Force by John Jackson Miller… Of all the time gaps between the Star Wars trilogies, one of the most intriguing is the time before The Phantom Menace, showing us what the Jedi Order was like before becoming embroiled in galactic crises like Naboo’s occupation and the Clone Wars. Author John Jackson […] From blockbuster Hollywood movies to independent and British cinema, Flickering Myth has you covered. Read the original post here: Book Review – Star...

  • Bouquets, Books and Burlesque at the Petals and Pages Bookstore

    “There’s a need for two things in Denver—community spaces and a growing literary scene,” says Dylah Ray, owner of Petals & Pages in the Santa Fe Arts District. Ray is tending to these needs with beauty and inclusion. A clean open room dotted with pinks and florals—freshly cut and hand-painted, Ray’s bookshop itself is a […]

  • Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Animal Books

    Seven Days writers can't possibly read, much less review, all the books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one memorable case, a flock of defecating cormorants. No, that didn't actually happen. We just like to be cute with the names for animal assemblages in this feature, which introduces you to a handful of books by Vermont authors by contextualizing each one and quoting a single representative sentence from page 32. For the Animal Issue, we gathered a selection of...

  • Book Review: Through that lens, Klein looks deeply into the 'mirror world'

    But if your doppelganger is forever spouting extreme views that range from the ridiculous to the outright offensive, well, that would be no fun at all. This is the predicament that Naomi Klein finds herself in, since her doppelganger is Naomi Wolf. Apparently, sharing a first name and the label 'feminist' is enough to make two women interchangeable in the eyes of the doom-scrolling, trolling public. The problem for Klein is that Wolf, the author of an influential feminist text of the 1990s, The...

  • Sign language book reviews: Bridging communication through literature in Hanoi

    The April Festival is an annual event at Xa Dan Middle School, where up to 60 percent of the students are hearing-impaired

  • John Green on banning book laws, fan base growth

    Few readers have yet to encounter a book written by John Green, from his iconic young adult fiction novels “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska,” and “Paper Towns” to his most recent dive into the nonfiction realm with “The Anthropocene Reviewed.” He also works closely with his brother Hank Green as a digital

  • Salman Rushdie ‘Knife’ Review: New Book Is Good But Uneven

    In Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder, Salman Rushdie recounts

  • Chris Mason: Six things that stand out for me in Liz Truss's book

    The BBC's political editor Chris Mason on what the former prime minister has to say about the state of conservatism.

  • Fort Kinnaird launches free book club in partnership with Musselburgh Library

    The club will be hosted at the centre by the Musselburgh Library Team, with participants encouraged to bring along the book they’re currently reading or favourite novel to discuss and take inspiration from others. Launching in Caffè Nero on Thursday, April 25, from 10am – 11am, the book club will meet on the last Thursday of every month. Booking is not required, and a free hot drink will be available for all attendees of the first session. The new book club coincides with the relaunch of the...

  • 'Stress Positions' review: John Early's COVID comedy goes boldly cringe

    Theda Hammel's energetic, idiosyncratic debut film, "Stress Positions," is a microcosm of modern America. Review.