Overlook
Moments Captured
Nineteenth-century photographer Edward Muybridge, whose mentor was Civil War photographer Mathew Brady, set up a traveling studio in a Conestoga…
Wicked Pleasures
Praeger & Son banking company in New York City had been successful for many decades thanks to Frederick Praeger III,…
The Philosopher Prince
Waters’ sequel to Cast Not the Day is set between 355 and 361 A.D., and finds the characters of Drusus…
Dead Men
Dual-time novels seem to be in vogue these days. Some feel contrived and out of balance, shifting mechanically between decades…
Monster
When I watch Frankenstein, the misery and longing in Boris Karloff’s eyes make me ache for the mute monster. Though…
The Seventh Gate
Editors' choice
Sophie Riedesel is a young Christian German girl growing up in Berlin in the 1930s. Her father is a Communist…
The Yellow Emperor’s Cure
Antonio Maria is the most famous surgeon in Lisbon in the late 1800s. Admired both by colleagues and the ladies…
Who Shot the Water Buffalo?
This is the story of a man who wasn’t all that strange – at least until after his Vietnam experience.…
Daughter of Providence
Editors' choice
The Dodge family was among the first to settle in Rhode Island back when it was a colony, and now,…
The Warsaw Anagrams
The Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Warsaw 1940, a world of almost half a million living dead, is the setting for…
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