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A World Imagined: Touching on Joe Hill's Locke & Key

This is a review for the three volume Master Editions: Locke&Key is a beautifully realized story with strong characters showing the...

The Children of Schlock and Art: Nicholas Royle’s “Dead End”

There exists a silent debate about the relevancy of genre writing. Lisa Roney, in her creative writing text Serious Daring, attempts to...

Characters are the Real focus of the SciFi novel Ground Control

While author Karen Hough does a lot well with Ground Control, one of the key elements she gets right is this understanding of conflict....

Audrey Niffenegger and the Question of Identity

Audrey Niffenegger's Her Fearful Symmetry is a story about two sets of twin sisters: Julia and Valentina Poole, and Elspeth Noblin and...

Crafting the Keep: Why Egan's book works

Jennifer Egan's third novel is seemingly a story with two plots. In one, two cousins reunite years after a tragic accident for a job...