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A Most Wanted Man by John Le Carré
March 14, 2025The violent and crude final pages of the book force us to scrutinise our feelings over...
Driftless by David Rhodes
March 13, 2025In his first book in more than thirty years Rhodes proves with ease why when he...
Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 by Annie Proulx
March 13, 2025Things are never fine just they way they are in Annie Proulx’s new collection of Wyoming...
How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone by Saša Stanišic
March 11, 2025Yet it is no accident that Aleksandar begins with an account of death, nor is it...
Deaf Sentence by David Lodge
March 11, 2025Reflecting on DEAF SENTENCE, the reader can hear the echoes of awful laughter — that silent...
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...
The Garden of Last Days by Andre Dubus III
March 11, 2025Of course, the reason the affable Dubus was feeding strippers $20 from his writing fellowship becomes...
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
March 9, 2025Such a pity Mary Ann Shaffer is not around to enjoy her celebrity! Shaffer died in...
The Count of Concord by Nicholas Delbanco
March 7, 2025Sir Benjamin Thompson, a.k.a. Count Rumford, is probably most familiar to modern ears as the inventor...




