Stories By Julia Braun Kessler
Fiction Reviews
All Whom I Have Loved by Aharon Appelfeld
December 6, 2025Aharon Appelfeld’s new novel, All Whom I Have Loved is indeed a riveting, if ominous tale,...

Books
Book Review: Some of My Lives: A Scrapbook Memoir by Rosamond Bernier
October 30, 2025Rosamond’s very early experiences with the great and famous were connected with her father’s love for...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Literary Brooklyn by Evan Hughes
September 28, 2025In his new history of the borough’s development you can virtually trace the emergence of America...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Lake of Dreams by Kim Edwards
July 6, 2025If anything can be said with certainty about our fickle reading public, it is that they...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Book Review: The Art Detective by Philip Mould
May 28, 2025Yet another of his discoveries turns out to be a lost watercolor by one of America’s...
Fiction Reviews
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
May 6, 2025A startling achievement in a first novel, the work seems to have already touched a chord...
History
Churchill by Paul Johnson
April 16, 2025And Johnson reminds us of the memorable words he spoke after France capitulated: “Let us therefore...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
April 1, 2025She introduces a woman who may have upset those around her by her promiscuity, even nymphomania,...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Manhattan: School for Scriveners
March 29, 2025For me, it was the people themselves, their intellectual inclinations, their sophisticated speech, their crisp wit...
Fiction Reviews
All Our Worldly Goods by Irene Nemirovsky
March 19, 2025How might we doubt that any long dead, wholly forgotten writer, who has re-emerged and within...





