Author Archives: Mary Ann Rivers

What is remarkable about Edie Harris’s The Corrupt Comte is, like early reviews and readers have noted, its complexity and erotic darkness. It is a deeply romantic book as well, and its turning points bend on romantic and erotic gestures … Continue reading →

In Cecilia Grant’s book A WOMAN ENTANGLED, Kate Westerbrook, of the disgraced branch of the Westerbrook family, is beautiful, has cultivated her beauty, too, like a crop meant to solve the world’s hunger problems. She understands, keenly, her beauty’s lack … Continue reading →

One long summer in a mountain town in northern Idaho, my husband and I invented a game called “Nut.” The days were incredibly hot, dry, and still. Air conditioning isn’t a common household feature in the mountains, and this heat … Continue reading →