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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
- A Kinrowan Estate story: Contradances
- 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
Maneka Gandhi’s The Rainbow and Other Stories
Pinky Vincent penned this review. One is left wondering at Maneka Gandhi’s sudden change of heart, at least in this little collection of stories. Renowned for her affection for quadrupeds, she takes time off to weave tales of human foibles … Continue reading
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Alex Von Tunzelmann’s Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire
It was probably a natural progression for me to slip into Indian Summer after reading The Ruling Caste and Raj not so long ago. As its title suggests, Indian Summer is about the final years of the Raj, i.e., British … Continue reading
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David Gilmour’s The Ruling Caste: Imperial Lives in the Victorian Raj and Lawrence James’ Raj: The Making and Unmaking of British India
When I was a kid, I really enjoyed reading Rudyard Kipling’s Jungle Books and Just So Stories. Decades later, I can still recite large parts of “The Law of the Jungle” from memory. Over the last few years, I’ve read … Continue reading
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Barbara Cleverly’s The Last Kashmiri Rose, Ragtime in Simla, The Damascened Blade and The Palace Tiger
These books by British writer Barbara Cleverly form a murder mystery series. Although I have read other serial fiction and other murder mysteries, this is my first encounter with this particular combination. I found the first two books in a … Continue reading
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S. M. Stirling’s The Peshawar Lancers
In 1878, a series strike of asteroids the earth, impacting in the Atlantic Ocean. The debris in the atmosphere causes a winter that lasts for quite sometime , seriously affecting Europe as the Gulf Stream ceases to be, and massive flooding … Continue reading
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Jack Zipes’ Beautiful Angiola: The Great Treasury of Sicilian Folk and Fairy Tales Collected by Laura Gonzenbach
Laura Gonzenbach’s nineteenth-century collection of Sicilian folktales was remarkable for several things. It was the first collection of folk tales from Sicilian sources, it was first published in German rather than Italian or Sicilian, and it was produced by a … Continue reading
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Ellen Kushner’s Tremontaine
Tremontaine is the latest foray into the world of Swordspoint, but it is not, as I had at first supposed, a collection of stories. It is, rather, an ongoing narrative with chapters by a group of writers, most of whom … Continue reading
Ellen Kushner’s Swordspoint
Every once in a while, being a reviewer offers a special perk, whether it’s a new book by a favorite author, a new find who stands head and shoulders above the crowd, or the chance to take another look at … Continue reading
Gene Wolfe’s An Evil Guest
It will help a lot if you read Charles Finney’s The Circus of Dr. Lao before tackling An Evil Guest. I can say that much with certainty. And I’m fairly confident that if I’d ever read any of Wolfe’s work … Continue reading
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Gene Wolfe’s The Book of the New Sun
Science fiction, like any other genre, has its landmarks, those works that stand above their cohort and may, all else being equal, stand above most works from other genres as well (and I include so-called “mainstream” literature among genres). Gene … Continue reading
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