The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women’s Roles in SocietyEleanor Janega “When we ignore history like this and assume that women have always been treated in one particular way that we are only now beginning to overcome, we accept that our society has always been this way and indeed should be this way.”…
Tag: Fantasy
What I read: February 2026
The White LadyJacqueline Winspear “She enjoyed this benign memory; there were other strands of reflection reaching back over the years that were akin to electric cables, able to shock if touched. Those hot wires of remembrance were all around her.” Although bombs have stopped falling and soldiers have returned home, the war will never be…
What I read: December 2025
How to be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral QuestionMichael Schur “The most important part of becoming better people, I’ll say yet again, is that we care about whether what we do is good or bad, and therefore try to do the right thing.” When television writer Michael Schur first conceived of the show…
What I read: June 2025
The Memoirs of Stockholm SvenNathaniel Ian Miller “To each side, ice accumulated in pinched slag heaps. The crevasses must have been terrible indeed, and I shuddered at the thought of peering into the void of one. A cold exhaled breath from some deep place where the world knew only freezing, crushing, grinding, and time measured…
What I read: April 2025
A Gentleman’s GentlemanTJ Alexander “Christopher was beginning to wonder if Harding communicated exclusively through his brows, and how long it might take to learn that language.” Lord Christopher Eden’s isolated life in the countryside is upended when his solicitors inform him that he must marry before his next birthday or forfeit his title and lands….