Listphoria

  A very well-crafted recounting of "The Affair of Poisons" - a period during Louis XIV's reign when over 400 people were impr...

Spoiler alert: Mr. Rochester definitely comes off as the selfish, arrogant, self-pitying villain in this Jane Eyre prequel that imagines the...

This was fascinating, both as an autobiography and as uniquely filtered socio-economic essay of New Orleans circa 1900-1921, encompassing th...

How many of these famous tales can you identify based on these extremely inept summaries?  1.        There are men and several rabbits but...

Make no mistake: this is an impressive work of research. However, there’s little source material for Schiff to work from (almost all of it ...

  Like many other states, Virginia has a split identity. The Western and Southern regions are largely rural and agricultural, but the Northe...

A while ago, my students became obsessed by some sort of Tik Tok trend which involved trying to guess the identity of a classmate or famous ...

  This is a gorgeously written, important book. It’s emotionally complex, morally challenging, and intellectually fecund - all of which make...

There are two major storylines here: (1) the gradual collapse of American civilization in the face of a climate crisis, and (2) the establis...

  I'm almost old enough to have taught in the 1980s, but not so old that I don't still remember what the educational experience was ...

                   ] This is a hard book to review. The title and plot description would have readers believing that this is a light-hearted...

Boiling the plot down to the simplest terms, this is the story of a fabulously successful New York financier, Andrew Bevel, at the turn of t...

In honor of Halloween, thought I'd assemble the following list of things that are generally considered to be unnerving or terrifying. Ha...