Desperate – Reads A Lot

Revising Worlds and Worldviews in “Some Desperate Glory” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsApril 24, 2023 by Jake Casella Brookins

[ad_1] Emily Tesh’s World-Fantasy-Award-winning Silver In the Wood and its sequel Drowned Country are deeply lovely books: quiet, yearning, and full of ancient straining curses and redemption. Tesh turning her novelistic sights to space opera is an event that should make every speculative fiction reader take note: Some Desperate Glory is a masterful take on … Read more

Mothers, Daughters, and Desperate Performances in “My Phantoms” – Chicago Review of Books

Book ReviewsSeptember 16, 2022 by Kent Kosack

[ad_1] I first came across Gwendoline Riley’s work via Andy Miller’s glowing recommendation on his podcast Backlisted, in which he praises My Phantoms, her latest novel, as “a page-turning discomfort read.” And it is uncomfortable. It’s also darkly funny and incisive. But perhaps the word that best describes it is cold. Over the course of … Read more