Book Review: The Fort by Bernard Cornwell
June 21, 2025Bernard Cornwell, who has written a masterful novel about Agincourt, tackles the American Revolution and its...
Book Review: How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu
June 16, 2025To label How to Live Safely as a human comedy is a bit of a stretch...
Book Review: The Elephant’s Journey by Jose Saramago
June 15, 2025Saramago’s ability to wring delightful dialogue out of his characters will charm just about anybody. The...
Book Review: Corduroy Mansions by Alexander McCall Smith
June 11, 2025The legions of admirers of Smith's other novels, notably The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency series,...
Book Review: Walks With Men by Ann Beattie
June 8, 2025Beattie, like in so much of her earlier work, leaves a lot to the imagination. Between...
Book Review: Lucy by Laurence Gonzales
June 8, 2025Lucy, half human, half bonobo monkey, was genetically engineered by her scientist father, so that “humans...
Book Review: Tell-All by Chuck Palahniuk
June 6, 2025Tell-All follows the general plotline of the movie Sunset Boulevard, which pairs a down-and-out young writer...
Book Review: The Nearest Exit by Olen Steinhauer
June 5, 2025Stephen King said that Olen Steinhauer's spy book, The Tourist, is "the best spy novel I've...
Book Review: The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman
June 2, 2025The premise of Philip Pullman’s new book is brilliant. The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel...
Book Review: The Passage by Justin Cronin
May 29, 2025Justin Cronin has written an epic here. Like Stephen King’s The Stand and Robert McCammon’s Swan...




