An Alternative Reality: How Dark Fields Turned into Limitless…

An Alternative Reality: How Dark Fields Turned into Limitless… Short of ingesting hallucinogens, probably the closest you can get to experiencing an alternative reality is when a world you created in your head is re-imagined by someone else, filmed, and then projected onto a screen in a movie theater. There are going to be differences […]

Book Review: Turn of the Mind

Book Review: Turn of the Mind by Alice LaPlante New York: Grove Press, 2012. $15.00 Alice LaPlante’s debut novel, Turn of Mind, is the first work of fiction to win the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for medical writing. This may seem a strange niche for a mystery novel, but LaPlante’s book does not slot easily […]

Book Review: Northwest Angle By William Kent Krueger

Book Review: Northwest Angle By William Kent Krueger New York: Atria Books, 2011. $24.99 Welcome back to northern Minnesota and the quickest, most exciting read closest to the Canadian border. The Northwest Angle is a place of majestic vistas, pristine forests, and ocean-like waters in the Lake of the Woods. And William Kent Krueger’s love […]