It is difficult to assess Matthew Wolfe’s Fires in the Night in part because I went into it expecting something a little bit different. If one looks at this book as a true crime, narrative nonfiction text about a specific legal case of an affinity group, it’s mostly fine. I have some disagreements here and…

I must admit that I rarely seek out books on economics, which ends up being a flaw of mine when trying to discuss my opposition to capitalism. I usually end up reading these sorts of things when a publisher sends them out with another book I’ve requested which is the case with this book in…

I was excited to see Clare Follmann’s Scapegoat: What the Invasive Species Story Gets Wrong show up in AK Press’ catalogue. I am a birder involved in a various naturalist projects and social circles and the lack of overlap between those and proper leftist critique of harmful systems is quite frustrating at times. I was…

Girl Number 67203 at Ravensbrück is a time capsule of stories that have frequently been underrepresented. The book is both a fascinating and harrowing account of Albanian and Greek womens resistance to fascism and their experiences imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. There is a sort of knowledge that comes from a book like this that…

It’s always tough to review a memoir as it can come off like reviewing someones life rather than the book itself. Sangamithra Iyer’s Governing Bodies took me a little while to get into. A mishmash of tumultuous things in my personal life and a unique writing structure meant that the book took me a bit…

Transmentation | Transgression is the second installment of The Formation Saga. The book again is penned by five collaborating authors going by the name Darkly Lem. Like the previous installment, this style of writing is impressive in the way the authors were able to create a cohesive novel composed by so many voices. I fear…

In reading Kendra Coulter’s first novel The Tortoises Tale, I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect. I wouldn’t say that I am a person who necessarily seeks out anthropomorphic* books about other-than-human-animals. I find some of these exercises to be a little too cartoonish or even disrespectful for my tastes. However, there are books that…

In my many efforts to de-google my life, I have moved from blogger to this platform. I will leave the previous posts up for now until I can move posts over and update every link to them embedded in my reviews across platforms.