reviews

Failed fable...? Author:  George Saunders At first glance, Fox 8 is a cute little story told by an intrepid fox who does his best to slow down mankind’s inexorable destruction of wild places.  As the Fox View Commons mall is going up in his neighborhood – destroying a beautiful woodland in the process – Fox 8 and his conveniently numbered vulpine friends struggle to survive.   Fox 8 appears to be brighter than most – having learned to read and write English – and does his best to try and lead the way.  Award-winning novelist George Saunders takes it from there [...]

Coming Full Circle: Revenge and Fear Author: Mark Waid Volume 5 of Mark Waid’s Daredevil picks back up with the fraught superhero saga. We left Daredevil at a low time, a time when as readers we were furious with Foggy and certain that the friendship was beyond repair. But now, Waid proves his powerful understanding of human emotion and ties (one of the strengths of this action packed yet down to earth series.) Foggy and Daredevil are brought together, and in the way of all reconciliations it isn’t perfect. Foggy’s bizarre behavior has a very non-supernatural cause: cancer. In this imperfect [...]

A Book About Current Politics For People On Neither Side  Author: Tucker Carlson Being a millennial growing up in Washington DC and going through college here has left me with a fair amount of scars and a general hatred for politics, Republican, Democrat, or otherwise. Hard core followers on both sides seem to equate their political stances, and the subsequent tirades, as something akin to “the only true religion.” On the one hand, one of my degrees was in journalism, which ostensibly taught about objectivity but spent more classes bashing Fox news than actually teaching me how to write and [...]