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Fiction Reviews
Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
March 11, 2025The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Mania: A Short History of Bipolar Disorder by David Healy
March 10, 2025He refuses to accept the dominance of money over medicine and the alarming diagnoses of bipolar...
Non-Fiction Reviews
30,000 Years of Art
February 23, 2025‘Coffee table book’ is a familiar pejorative used to describe an intellectual lounge ornament which, should...
Fiction Reviews
Diary of a Bad Year by J. M. Coetzee
February 23, 2025His cold restraint, often criticized, is the source of his tremendous power as a novelist. His...
Fiction Reviews
The Flawless Skin of Ugly People by Doug Crandell
February 18, 2025Hobbie suffers from acne vulgaris, which has forced him into a retreat from life. ‘Other than...
Great Britain
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
February 15, 2025There is also something conversational about the way he writes, a straightforwardness, and a beguiling, gentle...
Non-Fiction Reviews
What is intelligence? by James R. Flynn
February 14, 2025‘The Flynn Effect’ was the phrase Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray coined in their book...
Fiction Reviews
Noogie’s Time To Shine by Jim Knipfel
February 8, 2025One day, a young boy scares Noogie when he is the middle of restocking a machine...
Humor
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris
February 8, 2025The childishness, the pettiness, the jealously, the nitpicking, the backstabbing, the politicking, of all this is...
Fiction Reviews
Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk
February 8, 2025The Arlington Park of the title is a ‘green, ruminative, inchoate suburb’ with ‘avenues and well-pruned...
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