Tag Archives: fiction

Ernest Hemingway’s Under Kilimanjaro [Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming, eds.]

Posted on 4th February 2017 by Robert

The name “Kilimanjaro” calls up our most vivid images of Africa, the great mountain rising above the teeming savannas as Gregory Peck struggles up its flanks. That is, indeed, an image that comes to us from Ernest Hemingway, by way … Continue reading →

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Ibrahim Abdel Meguid’s Birds of Amber

Posted on 11th March 2009 by Gary Whitehouse

Along with Great Cairo: Mother of the World, we received this book in a shipment of review copies from International Publishers Marketing. It’s an English translation from the original Arabic, although I should note that the translator (Farouk Abdel Wahab) … Continue reading →

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Isabel Allende’s Zorro

Posted on 2nd June 2005 by Donna Bird

There’s just nothing like reviewing a piece of fiction to get you thinking about things you wouldn’t otherwise have thought about at all … When I was a kid, all the major television networks were scheduling shows with a Western … Continue reading →

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Bonnie Marson’s Sleeping with Schubert

Posted on 29th November 2004 by Gary Whitehouse

A young professional woman who doesn’t realize just how discontented she is with her routine life is suddenly possessed by the spirit of a well-known classical composer. It’s a good premise for a story. Liza Durbin, who lives in Brooklyn … Continue reading →

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Roald Dahl’s The Best of Roald Dahl

Posted on 7th February 2002 by Gary Whitehouse

Craig Clarke penned this review. Sure, you’ve read his books for kids. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, James and the Giant Peach, Matilda; these are wonderful representations of the twisted imagination of Roald Dahl. But they feel a little restrained, … Continue reading →

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William R. Eakin’s Redgunk Tales

Posted on 8th October 2001 by Richard Dansky

Welcome to Redgunk, Mississippi. It’s a town with a couple of hundred residents, several of whom have been abducted by aliens and many of whom are dating them. It’s a town with a fake mummy in the five-and-dime, not that … Continue reading →

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John Berger’s Into Their Labours

Posted on 19th June 2000 by Jack Merry

‘My people are the poor ones their country made of stones Their wealth is in persistance, in stories and in bones… – Oysterband, “One Green Hill” Between 1979, when he wrote Pig Earth, the first volume of what was to … Continue reading →

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