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Fiction Reviews
The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker
March 28, 2025Deceptively plain in its phrasing, almost lethargic in its pace, The Twin is about as flat...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams’ Doc Graham by Brett Friedlander and Robert Reising
March 26, 2025There's a scene in Field of Dreams where the camera lingers on a baby-faced baseball player...
Fiction Reviews
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
March 25, 2025For All the Living is an excellent debut for Morgan, a bold book of small incidents...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Irish Americans: A History by Jay P. Dolan
March 21, 2025America’s love affair with all things Irish – with J.F.K. and seedy bars in “The Departed,”...
Fiction Reviews
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
March 20, 2025Yet when an author treads into specific territories, the ground becomes awfully muddy. We’re happy to...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Frederick Burr Opper’s Happy Hooligan
March 20, 2025Viewed in retrospect, post-Depression, however, he acquires a special poignancy. Here was a man who was...
Fiction Reviews
Baby Jesus Pawn Shop by Lucia Orth
March 16, 2025So let me begin by saying Orth is a very talented writer. She has an eye...
Fiction Reviews
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
March 16, 2025That’s it. Truly. That’s the plot. But to say that is all there is to it...
Military
Frontiersman: Daniel Boone and the Making of America by Meredith Mason Brown
March 15, 2025It was brutal stuff. Massacres, scalpings, crops burned, winters with only salted meat to eat –...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Casanova by Ian Kelly
March 15, 2025Ah, Casanova. Men want to be him, and women want to be with him. Or is...
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