Book Reviews

Tramping to Canterbury by Rachel Deveau It doesn’t matter who we are — male or female, American or not — every human longs for adventure. We try all sorts of things to escape the humdrum of our lives, and lately the most popular ways include travel. In distant places, we experience something outside our ordinary […]

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Homeland Insecurities by Jason Helms Six years after the towers fell and many of us are still moving through various stages of grief. Depression has become a way of life for some, of death for others. Anger smirked us through two wars and hungry eyes a third. Bargaining gave us a new government department, complete […]

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Long Past Midnight by Jason Helms It’s rare that I stay up until the light hours of night. Since adulthood I can count on my hands the number of times I’ve stayed out for the party or stayed up for the conversation. So it was odd to be looking at the clock, seeing that it […]

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Brittle, Beautiful by Jason Helms Neil Gaiman doesn’t write literature. Neil writes stories. In the introduction to Fragile Things, his latest collection of short-stories, he wrote, “I believe we owe it to each other to tell stories. It’s as close to a credo as I have or will, I suspect, ever get” (xxii). Neil writes […]

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Tales From the Mid-life by James Roland Stephen King is old. He is rapidly approaching the big Six-O, and it shows. King’s work was never driven by thrill-a-minute plot points; his stories show a real talent for understanding the inner workings of the quote – human condition – unquote. But as he ages (wine connoisseurs […]

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Danielewski Leaves the House by Jason Helms This article has been archived in RedFence Print Edition One, available now at the Store.

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Readings & Rereadings by Jason Helms This article has been archived in RedFence Print Edition One, available now at the Store.

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Prime Imagination by John Fox This article has been archived in RedFence Print Edition One, available now at the Store.

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Through the Stepson’s Eyes by Anne Powell There is a distance between biographer and subject that teases readers with research, with cataloged places and events, but fails to conjure understanding. Douglas Gresham’s tale of Jack’s Life is different. Gresham chronicles the life of his famous stepfather, C.S. Lewis, not in ordinary biographical style but simply […]

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