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Love and Summer by William Trevor
January 5, 2024Why is it that summer can never last forever, especially when we want it to? The...
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The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver
January 3, 2024Even so, to hold The Lacuna in one’s hand, to read it, is to witness and...
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Under the Dome by Stephen King
January 2, 2024Still, despite the ending, this is King’s best work in years, a richly textured novel of...
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The Scarpetta Factor by Patricia Cornwell
January 2, 2024She’s developed an enjoyable way of beginning novels in the middle of a story, letting her...
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Vanessa and Virginia by Susan Sellers
December 31, 2023As a cultural, literary, and historical icon, Virginia Woolf was celebrated by contemporaries and has continued...
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The Child Thief by Brom
December 31, 2023There are moments of genuine mystery and magic, scenes where we are bedazzled and terrified simultaneously....
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The Glass Room by Simon Mawer
December 29, 2023Mawer’s The Glass Room is a genuine intellectual achievement—a breath-taking story of love and its loss,...
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The Bigness of the World by Lori Ostlund
December 29, 2023The Bigness of the World, Ostlund's first collection of short stories, was good enough for the...
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The Twelve by William Gladstone
December 27, 2023This novel follows the exploits of intellectual and spiritual wunderkind Max Doff who, even as an...
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Little Bird of Heaven by Joyce Carol Oates
December 26, 2023Krista and Aaron eventually do meet, in a shocking incident that leaves little space for spoken...