Book Summaries

The Longest Autumn

The Longest Autumn

Amy Avery’s fantasy novel “The Longest Autumn” features a complex tapestry of topics and characters that go deep into the worlds of mythology and human emotion. This book takes the reader on a trip through a universe in which the…

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum

Antonia Hylton’s “Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum” is a thorough and nuanced investigation of the complicated relationship between race, mental health, and the American legal system. The book, which looks thoroughly into the history of Crownsville…

Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands Flattened Culture

The second chapter in the Emily Wilde series, “Emily Wilde’s Map of the Otherlands” by Heather Fawcett, has received attention and admiration from all corners of the literary world. The story follows Emily Wilde, a brilliant historian of faerie mythology,…