Down Here – by Andrew Vachss
December 11, 2025The popularity of this self-absorbed, naïve dreck should astound me. It doesn’t considering the current woeful...
Dancing With Einstein by Kate Wenner
December 11, 2025Combining fact with fiction, Kate Wenner’s “Dancing with Einstein” is a carefully crafted novel that manages...
The Collector by John Fowles
December 10, 2025Fowles was a writer who always seemed content to remain in the shadows, on the edge...
Centuria: 100 Ouroboric Novels by Giorgio Manganelli
December 9, 2025Americans in this therapy-mad epoch tend to take, rather mistake, an “experience” for that fateful “event.”...
The Caddie Who Knew Ben Hogan by John Coyne
December 7, 2025At the risk of being cold-hearted, though after reading this book I don’t seem to care...
Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 by Annie Proulx
December 7, 2025Where do I start with Annie Proulx? Where does anyone start with Annie Proulx? Certainly not...
The Athena Factor by W. Michael Gear
December 7, 2025In The Athena Factor W. Michael Gear explores the compelling and in many ways horrifying world...
Alibi by Joseph Kanon
December 7, 2025Joseph Kanon’s summer potboiler is a weak whodunnit set in the seedy splendor of post-war Venice.
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,...
American Atlas by Dan Gerber
December 6, 2025American Atlas is something of a road book with the protagonist a rich guy around thirty...




