Note: The following review was originally done for Reedsy and is being reposted here with the permission of the site. In his introductory note, French philosopher Laurent Grenier asks readers not to take…
Author: Ernest Dempsey
How to Film Truth
Short books can achieve big goals. This is proven in the case of How to Film Truth (Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2018) by Justin Wells. The book introduces readers to…
Rules for Eternity
John Hunter’s Rules for Eternity (self-published, 2024) comes as a refreshing addition to the philosophical quest for finding answers to some unanswered questions that matter on a celestial scale. The…
Vestiges
Note: The following review was originally done for Reedsy and is being reposted here with the permission of the site. Vestiges by Daniel J. Patinkin includes fifteen short stories that vary widely in…
In Bondage to Evil
Demonic possession or mental illness? How to tell them apart? What about both existent at the same time? These and many more questions are expertly answered in a book that…
The Higgs Fake
In summer 2012, the world was fed the news of the discovery of a lifetime – the Higgs Boson, also popularized as “the God particle.” But few seriously questioned the…
Refuting Relativity
Science writer and cosmology buff Brent Shadbolt has brought up one of the most important, if not the most important, topics in contemporary physics – the validity of Einstein’s theories…
North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – Volume 1
Hilton Everett Moore’s North of Nelson: Stories of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula – Volume 1 has six short stories set around north of Nelson in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula between late Victorian…
The Wicker Man
By the time Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer adapted their script of the cult horror movie The Wicker Man into a novel (Tom Doherty Associates, 2014), the movie already had…
Pressure: A Memoir
“I will get what I want,” said the voice in a child’s head one evening as he secretly watched Miami Vice on tape in his mom’s room. Thus started an…