New Voices from Oz
Oz Reimagined is a great collection of short stories on the topic of, of course, Oz. There are 15 stories collected from notable writers in science ficti...
Author: Lindsey Halsell
Based on a True Story
The walls here are soft, not like a blanket but like one of those boards that you can stick pieces of felt to for telling stories to children. Maybe one day I’l...
A Cult I Had Never Read about Before: the Independent Fundamental Baptists
UPDATE MARCH 29, 2023: A lot of people seem to find this post (I assume you’re asking the internet if IFB is a cult) so I am adding a note. If you feel li...
Zimbabwe, America, and the immigrant experience
Book Review: We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo I can’t quite recall where I first heard about this book, but I have been hearing about it a lot lately. I d...
Dreaming Is Free: Its Aftermath Is Not
Book Review: Dreams and Shadows: A Novel by C. Robert Cargill I loved reading this book; I guess we can start with that. Like most books I’ve been reading latel...
Panic: A Retrospective Essay
I remember the first time I had a panic attack. Of course, at the time, I wouldn’t have called it that. I was four years old—maybe even three, who knows—a...
Logic by Any Other Name
Book Review: Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos Papadimitriou I heard about this book via friend who thought I might be inte...
Scientology, Comparative Religion, and Fun with Cults
Book Review: Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief by Lawrence Wright There is so much to say about this book that it’s hard to kn...
In the Kiddie Pool
Book Review: The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr I wanted to read The Shallows because, like the majority of people in my ge...
Every day the same, but different
Book Review: Every Day by David Levithan I picked this book up from the library on a whim. I volunteer there twice a week, so I spend a lot of time walking past...