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- What’s New for the 16th of August: Deborah Grabien’s music criticism essays; new Americana and jazz, and some music for the Dog Days of Summer
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Strangeness
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- What’s New for the 26th of July: Witches in fiction, both books and film; an Americana reissue and some music on a smoky theme
- A Kinrowan Estate story: chicken pot pieces
- What’s New for the 19th of July: Charles de Lint’s Ottawa novels with a quote from Drink Down the Moon, Gary’s review of Nordic fiddle music, It’s Michele Walther and Irina Behrendt playing Aaron Copland’s ‘Hoe Down’ from his Rodeo album
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Midsomer Odd Things
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Library and Its Librarian
- What’s New for the Fifth of July: Remembering Jane Yolen; some new Americana and jazz music; Fishing Blues
- A Kinrowan Estate Story: Recursive Loops
- What’s New for June 21: Jennifer Stevenson’s ‘Solstice’
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Turkish Coffee
- What’s New for the 7th of June: Foxes in literature, live Balkan music, comforting jazz, Americana jazz, and wonderfully weird fusion jazz; and John Fogerty live
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Bloodied Kings
- What’s New for the 24th of May: Gary’s Review of Elizabeth Bear’s White Space novels, iain’s review of the Lonely Signal Burns novellas by her, she reading her own story, ‘The Chains That You Refuse’, and I see Gary has some tasty music reviews fir us as well
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Our Greensward
- What’s New for the 10th of May: books reviewed by Jennifer Stevenson, music by Teddy Thompson, Americana music from all over, and some live music from John Fogerty
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Walk
- What’s New for the 26th of April: the nature of Stories; some new and newish SF, plus new world, jazz, folk and Americana music
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Spring Day
- What’s New for the 12th of April: Some new and recent SF; new Americana, Norwegian folk rock and jazz; and thoughts on War For The Oaks
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Unified Theory of Libraries (A Letter to Anna)
- What’s New for the 29th of March: Beer and spirits, in song and text, some new Scandinavian fiddle music and jazz flute music, and more
- A Kinrowan Estate story: A Ghostly Librarian
- What’s New for the 15th of March: some DeLint stories for early spring; lots of polskas, Serbian folk rock, progressive jazz, and Nordic music from the archives
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Hedge Witches
- What’s New for the 1st of March: Emma Bull’s War for The Oaks, Rosanne Cash’s ‘Runaway Train’, Johnny Cash at San Quentin, plus new Americana and jazz music
- A Kinrorwan Estate story: Cranachanh
- What’s New for the 15th of February: Some Seanan McGuire fantasy, Alison Bechdel’s latest, Pamela Dean’s Tam Lin; Nordic sounds, old time, Americana and Tex-Mex music
- What’s New for the 1st of February: Kage Baker retrospective; new Americana, Buddhist chants and Finnish songs, new and reissued jazz, and more
Category Archives: Books
Ray Bradbury’s Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles
Ray Bradbury’s Bradbury: Novels and Story Cycles is a collection of the author’s more well known works, including the individual stories that make up one of his best known works The Martian Chronicles. “Way in the Middle of the Air” … Continue reading
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Garth Cartwright’s Princes Amongst Men
Gypsies and music go together. Not just in popular imagination, but in fact. From the Gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt to the wailing trumpets of the brass orkestar, from Andalusia’s Flamenco guitarists to the profound and joyful singing of Esma … Continue reading
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Tagged Balkan music, folk music, world music
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Neal Asher’s Orbus
Anyone who reads my reviews here at Green Man knows I really do love long SF series where characters and plot can develop at length as the author feels fit. Certainly Asher’s Polity series is one of those as it … Continue reading
Reynold Humphries’ The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, and Steffen Hantke, editor’s Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945
Kestrell Rath wrote this review. There is a growing body of high-quality critical writing about the horror film, both classic and contemporary, and part of this criticism has begun to address the ongoing dichotomy between the often confused and disparaging … Continue reading
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Tagged fim criticism, horror
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Tim Powers’ Alternate Routes
Tim Powers’ Alternate Routes provides an uneven but more mainstream fantasy novel from one of Fantasy’s greatest luminaries. Sebastian Vickery has had a better few years. First of all, that’s not his original name; he had to change it after a … Continue reading
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Judith Tarr’s The Hound and the Falcon
Faith J. Cormier wrote this review. Omnibus edition containing The Isle of Glass (1985), The Golden Horn (1985), The Hounds of God (1986) Do the fey have souls? Are they creatures of God or of the Devil? Can a member … Continue reading
Judith Tarr’s Devil’s Bargain, House of War, and Pride of Kings
While Judith Tarr’s novels Devil’s Bargain, House of War, and Pride of Kings are supposedly historical fantasies dealing with the Crusades, one of the most bloody, savage, and violent episodes of our history, the books are disappointingly tame, boring, naïve, … Continue reading
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Tagged fantasy, historical fantasy
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Judith Tarr’s White Mare’s Daughter
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. Misogynists, beware, this book is not for you! It is a celebration of big-breasted, powerful women, wild, proud horses, and what happens when men try to break them. It is a vibrant and fascinating portrayal … Continue reading
Judith Tarr’s Kingdom of the Grail
Rebecca Swain wrote this review. Kingdom of the Grail is not a retelling of the Arthurian legend. Merlin appears at the beginning and the end of this story; Parsifal makes an appearance; and the Grail is the focal point of … Continue reading
K. J. Parker’s Purple & Black
Matthew Winslow wrote this review. The scenario behind K.J. Parker’s novella Purple & Black should be familiar to anyone who has studied the history of the later Roman Empire. The land of Vesani has had seventy-seven emperors in the past … Continue reading