Pocket Reviews

The Help is a choral historical novel with three main characters, two black women and one white girl living in the segregated Mississippi during...

Two timelines. In modern-day London, Helen Watt and Aaron Levy find an important collection of letters dating back to 17th Century. This discovery’s not...

When Ruth finds out that her mom’s name is not Sally Gilmartin but Eva Delectorskaya, and that she was a British spy in WWI,...

  A past without clean slate Thirty years of American syndicalism seen through the eyes of Eddie Florio, a man for sale, with neither scruples or...

  Without a Moment of Truce A guncotton noir, it weaves both the classic story of the femme fatale who seduces the antihero and induces him...

The best spy is the one uncovering history A decent anthology, edited by Otto Penzler, with prominent authors and fourteen stories which, though in most...

He would do anything to get his degree! It is – or it is said to be – the graduation thesis in medicine of the...

The Well-Written Wrong Prophecy A short essay by the Father of Psychoanalysis, exquisite writer, on religion, portrayed as a consoling drive, which mankind invented to...

  Sad Latin Bestiaries Drawing inspiration from Aesop, Phaedrus narrates in verses moral apologues of talking animals, easy to be referred to the human experiences. Unlike...

  We are the book, the book is us More than a read, this is an experience. There is no unscathed escape from this novel by...