In a spin on Franz Kafka’s ‘The Metamorphosis,’ Booker-Prize winning author Ian McEwan has created a world in which a cockroach has transitioned into a man, and this man has the control of the British […]
Evening In Paradise: More Stories by Lucia Berlin
Recently, BookBrowse sent me a copy of a short story collection by “one of America’s best kept secrets”: Lucia Berlin’s Evening In Paradise: More Stories. Berlin evokes Shirley Jackson (minus the gothic vibes) and Raymond […]
New Releases 11/12/19
This is a big week for LGBT releases. Also new literature on cultural appropriation, the state of Trump, the Pentagon and the environment (and Greta!), a 2019 Economics Nobel Prize Winner and some new history […]
The Carrying by Ada Limón
Ada Limón’s The Carrying introduces a deeply personal collection of poems and is recognized as her boldest work yet. Unlike Bright Dead Things, the National Book Award finalist which examines the ideals of a youthful […]
New Releases – November 5th, 2019
We will be periodically updating the blog with new releases in all genres – all the following were released November 5th and are available now in the shop! Non-Fiction This Land Is Their Land – […]
Review: Michael Schmidt’s Gilgamesh: The Life of a Poem
LET’S start with a confession: I am a historian and I have never read Gilgamesh. I didn’t read it in graduate school. I didn’t read it in college. I didn’t even read an excerpt in […]
Review: Yoko Ogawa’s The Memory Police
IF roses, all roses, suddenly disappeared, would your memory of them fade away as if they had never existed? This is the premise of Yoko Ogawa’s compelling dystopian novel, The Memory Police. On an unnamed […]
Review: Death Is Hard Work by Khaled Khalifa
Embroiled in a bloody civil war since 2011, Syria has long been subject to coups, repressive regimes, and state sanctioned surveillance.* Death Is Hard Work, the latest novel from Syrian author Khaled Khalifa, is infused with […]
The R&P Review: Our Mission and a Renewed Focus
The business’s social media accounts have been relatively quiet for the past month or so. The majority of this inactivity was due to behind-the-scenes work geared towards transforming our website from a portal for general […]
Advocating for Worcester’s Businesses and Communities in the 21st-Century
What is the cost of online commerce?