Writer. Contributing Editor at The Discarded Image. Digital Content Strategist. Here's where I publicly explore the books I'm reading, the projects I'm working on, and other current interests. Category Archives for Reviews
Chance Encounters: A Review of The Last Nude
Paris in the Jazz Age. A backdrop to art, literature, fashion, music, sparkling cocktails, catty society, public sexuality, political intrigue, and parties so lavish that the famous guests compete to be the entertainment. Rafaela Fano, American and seventeen, arrives in … Continue reading
Darkness is Cheap: A Review of Winter
The daffodils are starting to emerge in Northwest Ohio, but I know not to let them fool me. It’s still cold, still mostly gray skies, still swaths of road salt in my wheel wells. Trump is still president, Brexit is … Continue reading
Women’s March Week: The Life Obscured: A Review of Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
What would it mean to write the history of an age not only from what has been saved but also from what has been lost? What would it mean to write a history concerned not only with the lives of … Continue reading
Women’s March Week: The Failed Colonial Goodwife: A Review of The Notorious Elizabeth Tuttle
Those who recognize the name Elizabeth Tuttle know her only as the paternal grandmother of colonial theologian Jonathan Edwards, a woman her grandson was raised to forget because of her alleged failings as a colonial goodwife. Yet this same woman, … Continue reading
Women’s March Week: (Archives) How a Woman Modernized China: A Review of Empress Dowager Cixi
Pearl Buck once observed that those who hated the Empress Dowager Cixi were “more articulate than those who loved her.” Jung Chang’s recent biography, Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China, argues that Cixi has long been misunderstood, … Continue reading
