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Non-Fiction Reviews
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
April 2, 2025The concept of Pleasures and Sorrows is a good one. De Botton sets out on a...
Fiction Reviews
Sunnyside by Glen David Gold
March 30, 2025For Gold, like Koontz and Høeg, has a way of combining farce and futility that says...
Biography
Marlee Matlin: Bold Moves and Few Regrets
March 28, 2025"I worry about nothing except doing work that I like and that I look at as...
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,”...
African American
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...
Southeast Asia
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...
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