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A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
December 5, 2023The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
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Driftless by David Rhodes
December 5, 2023In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
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Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
December 4, 2023Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
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How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
December 3, 2023Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
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Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
December 2, 2023Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
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Man in the Dark by Paul Auster
December 2, 2023The novel is narrated by August Brill, a writer, a widower, an old man. Brill is...
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The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
December 1, 2023Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
November 30, 2023Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
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The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
November 30, 2023Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...
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Odd Hours by Dean Koontz
November 26, 2023Ogres are like onions, the great philosopher Shrek once said. Onions have layers, ogres have layers....