The Woman’s Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects (More Crystals and New Age)
"One of my favorite ways of reading is to pull a book off the shelf and open it at random. That's the great thing about reference books like dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books are treasure...
View ArticleThe Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
"One of my favorite ways of reading is to pull a book off the shelf and open it at random. That's the great thing about reference books like dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books are treasure...
View ArticleDragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
I originally picked up this beautiful book, published by Candlewick Press, just to look at it, thinking I might buy one at a later time. But I soon realized that I needed to have a copy in my...
View ArticleCloser Than Ever to Vergil
The Aeneid by Virgil Reviewed by Garry Wills New York Review of Books Just two years ago, Robert Fagles, shortly before his death, set the bar very high for translating Vergil's Aeneid. Yet already the...
View ArticleThere Once Lived a Woman Who Tried to Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby
Regarded as one of Russia's most talented contemporary writers, Petrushevskaya's collection of vignettes is far beyond the macabre, with characters who desperately cling to the past while living...
View ArticlePM Press Interview
Ramsey Kanaan is the co-founder of PM Press, one of the most interesting small publishers in the business today. Powell's Chris Faatz caught up with him this past month and asked him a few questions. ÷...
View ArticleMy Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me
Neil Gaiman! Aimee Bender! Kelly Link! Michael Cunningham! It's impossible to list the contributors to this book without using exclamation points. This wickedly entertaining collection reclaims fairy...
View ArticleWriting at Six Miles an Hour
As a child, I spent much of my life inside because that was where the books were. My early memories are of reading on couches, floors, beds — I preferred the prone position to the upright because it...
View ArticleMea Culpa, Minerva et Mars
The motto "Art and War," under imposing statues of Minerva and Mars, has graced a cartouche over the entrance to Stockholm's Riddarhuset — the House of Nobles — since 1647. Those words struck a...
View ArticleThe Whispering Muse (staff pick)
Much like The Blue Fox, Sjón's The Whispering Muse is possessed of qualities that linger long after the novel has concluded. Combining elements of Greek mythology with modern storytelling (as well as...
View ArticleHow Is Fantasy Different from Fairy Tale?
Fairy tale is a country of the mind where there are many inhabitants stretching back into deep time, and we're like people before Babel, we speak a common tongue: fairy tales exist in a symbolic...
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