Book Review: Verdigris (2007/2024) by Michele Mari and translated by Brian Robert Moore

My thanks to And Other Stories for a review copy of this book via Edelweiss. Was I not perhaps a connoisseur of monsters, willing with every fiber to make friends with them, understand them, to love them? A strange story of an unusual friendship which navigates spaces of reality and imagination, past and present, unsettling…

Book Review: Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel

This book is more the story of Galileo than his daughter, but anchored for the most part around the correspondence between the two, or rather what has survived of it which is only her letters to him but not his to her (These I think were destroyed by her order because of the controversy surrounding…