Wilde’s Women: How Oscar Wilde Was Shaped by the Women He Knew | Author: Eleanor Fitzsimons | Rating: 11/11 | Oscar Wilde is a household name, synonymous with the gay rights movement and Victorian England even for individuals who have not read a single sentence of his work. ‘Feminist’, however, is a word much less commonly associated with Wilde. In […]

Always Too Much and Never Enough | Author: Jasmin Singer | Rating: 7.9/11 | As someone who has recently developed a genuine interest in learning to heal one’s body through nutrition and exercise, Jasmin Singer’s memoir was of instant interest. Jasmin Singer can be given a lot of labels: an activist, a vegan, a lesbian and even, up until recent […]

The Relic Master: A Novel | Author: Christopher Buckley | Rating: 9.5/11 | The sixteenth century is commonly known as the Rise of the West. This period of exploration and change witnessed such world-altering events as the Protestant Reformation, the rise of the Ottoman Caliphate, the establishment of mercantilism, and the opening and plundering of the New World across the sea. […]

The Diary of a Teenage Girl | Rating: 10/11 | Based on the graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl: An Account in Words and Pictures by Phoebe Gloeckner, writer and director Marielle Heller’s cinematic take on the novel is surprisingly refreshing. In the first few minutes of the film, this coming-of-age story takes its audience back to 1976 San Francisco, […]

In a city named after angels but filled with just as many demons – good ol’ Los Angeles – it takes something like bravery and heart to accomplish dreams. Formed in 2012, Los Angelics is an indie-rock group (grown locally in the heart of LA) that is not only creating a rift in the local music scene, but is also […]

The Japanese Lover: A Novel | Author: Isabel Allende | Rating: 4.5/11 | If we remember nothing else from our high school history classes, we know this: history repeats itself. And while the great and terrible wars, armistices and revolutions can never be laid at the feet of any single individual, mankind enacts these cyclical themes in microcosm throughout the […]

The Girl with Ghost Eyes | Author: M. H. Boroson | Rating: 10.8/11 | This year’s fiction market has been a nostalgia game.  Just take a look at 2015’s blockbuster hits: Jurassic World; Avengers: Age of Ultron; Mad Max: Fury Road; and, of course, Star Wars: The Force Awakens. But nostalgia isn’t necessarily as straight-forward as revisiting the characters and […]