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The People of the Dune, by Jim Olson

victor September 15, 2025 July 29, 2025Adult Fiction, Native American & Aboriginal 1

Book cover with the title "People of the Dune" and author "Jim Olson" on a beige background. Simple illustration shows a dotted hill, clouds, and small figures walking in the foreground.

Review by John Austin The extraordinary core of People of the Dune—a blistering, elaborate, and meticulous interrogation of the tension between modern property rights on the one hand and the obligations we owe to sacred places and the common good on the other—comes in the form of an unorthodox legal…

Dead Silence by Craig Brockman

victor March 1, 2025 December 23, 2024Horror 0

Book cover for "Dead Silence" by Craig A. Brockman. Features a silhouette of a coyote against a dark forest background. The text reads, "They Steal Your Thoughts, Your Body, and Leave You in the Afterlife.

Review by John Austin About a hundred pages into Craig Brockman’s recent thriller Dead Silence, the reader and the complicated “hero” of the story meet the book’s most splendidly rendered character: Ma’ii, the trickster coyote spirit who eventually resolves the plot, albeit in confounding fashion, and not necessarily to everyone’s…

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