Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo begins as the best fantasy novels do: with a map. A collection of locations exotic to most readers but not to us—Harkness Tower, Grove Street Cemetery, Beinecke Library—are tagged along the map’s greyscale streets, numbered 1 through 31. Tara’s Death Site is number 32. Bardugo’s vision of New Haven comes […]
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Re(li)gional Rail
Sometimes a book’s title all but forces you to pluck it off the shelf. God and the New Haven Railway and Why Neither One Is Doing Very Well did that to me. (Okay, it was a metaphorical shelf; I ordered it online.) The author, George Dennis O’Brien, who the internet says is still with us […]