Are you in your prime? If you were, would you know it? And would you know what to do with it?! Miss Jean Brodie’s in her prime, and she’s...

In The Odyssey, Penelope is mostly a side character who exists to be faithful to Odysseus (and clever enough to be compatible with him). Atwood’s Penelopiad asks: what was...

In this classic novella, Leo Tolstoy asks, “What would it take for a guy who stinks to realize he stinks? And how would he feel about that at the...

And so the (initial) story of the world of Percy Jackson draws to a close. It’s time to discuss the Battle of New York, the resolution of a prophecy,...

The Magic School Bus series, beloved of 80s and 90s kids as both a book series and a TV show, depicts a school where every day is a field...

The book that put Murakami on the map in Japan is an intimate tale about youth, love, sex, and grief. So it’s not surprise he settled on a Beatles...

Hello, cats and kittypets! If you’re up for a Redwall-y, Watership Down-y exploration of warrior cat societies and territorial conflicts, boy do we have the dozens and dozens of...

Communities collide in the Chicken Hill neighborhood of 1930s Pottstown. Will the tensions become more than this town can manage? Since this is a James McBride novel, probably not!...

Emily Henry’s Beach Read is a romance novel that’s light on the romance, and also on beaches and reading. But it’s still fun! An a good argument against aggressively...