“Fates and Furies”: Two Takes on a Marriage, One Impressive Novel
Lauren Groff’s Fates and Furies is an unusual accomplishment, not only because it is that rare ambitious novel that largely lives up to its ambition,…
Author: Mary Kate Costigan
The High Mountains of Portugal: A Thoughtful but Underwhelming Study of Grief
by Mary Kate Costigan Never let it be said that Yann Martel doesn’t like wild animals. Fifteen years ago he published Life of Pi, a…
The Magic of Venice and ‘The Thief Lord’
by Jessica A. Beck When I first read Cornelia Funke’s The Thief Lord, I couldn’t have been more than 10 years old. I was a girl…
The Year of Shakespeare: How to Celebrate the Bard in 2016
By Mary Kate Costigan Really, every year is the year of Shakespeare. But 2016 holds special importance, as it marks 400 years since his death.…
In “Alive, Alive Oh!”, Diana Athill Remembers a Remarkable Life
By Mary Kate Costigan At 97 years old, Diana Athill has a lot of story to tell. Biographical details alone will tell you that those…
“Pride and Prejudice and Zombies” Gives an Unlikely Lesson in Adaptation, is Awesome While Doing So
by Mary Kate Costigan As a teenager, I once made a list of inaccuracies between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and its movie…
Literary Events to Get Excited About in 2016
by Mary Kate Costigan 2015 was a great year for all things literary. Harper Lee’s long, long awaited second novel, Go Set a Watchman, was…
We Recommend This App: WiFi Map
by Mary Kate Costigan Is there anything more coveted during travel than free Wi-Fi? The search for it is made much, much easier with WiFi…
The Buried Giant: Why the Fantastic Isn’t Always Important in Fantasy
by Mary Kate Costigan In his first novel in ten years, Booker Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro enters a realm he has never entered before:…
Christopher Buckley Satirizes Medieval Europe in ‘The Relic Master’
by Mary Kate Costigan “Dismas might have purchased the finger bone of the Apostle Thomas, but there was something not quite right about the man…