2+ day, 21+ hour ago  (246+ words) CARL_HIAASEN: It's also for a native Floridian psychotherapeutic to do it. I mean, to be able to write that way. Good satire comes from a place of anger. Humor is a pretty good way to at least strike back and feel…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (1115+ words) In 2018, when Fiona Wright began writing Kill Your Boomers, the housing crisis was in full swing. Cruelly exacerbated by the pandemic, it is now central to mainstream political debate in Australia. The novel began with a dark joke among Wright's…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (276+ words) Does anyone really want to read about the state of the nation at the moment? When the state of said nation is getting bleaker by the hour, each turn of the page of Amanda Craig's eleventh novel feels like the…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (622+ words) So much of the "American dream" hinges on homeownership, but buying a home isn't always a guarantee of stability or fulfillment. Seattle author Kim Fu's latest novel reflects on the precarious nature of betting everything on another person's idea of…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago  (525+ words) What the pupil learned. Mother was in the parlor when I came in. Moseley had already lit the fire. I tapped the back of the chair four times. The arm once. Then Moseley opened the door. Then Irma, then Crossin,…...