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Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Book Review

Ransom Riggs
I gobbled this book up as fast as I could. It's a delightful indulgence, but ultimately a forgettable story. Pacing and plot feels just right, and the author creates a fantasy world embedded within a highly-specific WWII setting. Unfortunately, the good vs. evil story arc feels tired and derivative.

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Making Rent in Bed-Stuy Book Review

Brandon Harris
Disjointed stories hastily patched together. This book tries to squeeze a universe of experiences into a single narrative, and mostly fails. But it's worth reading for Harris' on-the-ground accounts of gentrification's creeping takeover in New York City and Cincinnati, during the decade from 2005-2015.

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Is slow travel really better for the environment?

Julia and I decided to take a bike trip through Colombia for many reasons: the country is a major cycling destination, with a culture of respect for cyclists and breathtaking, challenging terrain. It's also a country that speaks Spanish, and we wanted to be able to communicate effectively during …

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May Day Book Review

F. Scott Fitzgerald
Depicts the desperate, numb, shiftless drunkenness of poor folks in the same light as the carefree debauchery of the rich; basically an extremely condensed version of The Great Gatsby's central moral theme.

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