Monthly Archives: December 2016

Shepard, Sam. Great Dream of Heaven. Vintage, New York, (first publication) 2002. F;12/16. Tiny Man was a strange powerful short story by this author in a recent New Yorker so I looked him up and was surprised to find he … Continue reading →

Lane, Nick. The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life. Norton, New York, 2016. NF;10/16. Reviews of this book on evolution and chemistry hail it as an intellectual and scientific breakthrough. Most reviewers find the explanations and logic … Continue reading →

Smith, Zadie. Swing Time. Penguin (in Canada Hamish Hamilton). 2016. F;11/16. This is not exactly a book that you either love or hate, it’s easily big enough that you can manage both. I can’t be at all sure that its … Continue reading →