-
Book Review: NW by Zadie Smith
November 12, 2024By calling her newest novel NW, Zadie Smith follows in the tradition of other writers, including...
-
Book Review: Office Girl by Jay Meno
November 5, 2024Chicago is the city, 1999 is the year. This book is a love story but one...
-
Book Review: Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan
November 1, 2024The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...
-
Book Review: You & Me by Padgett Powell
October 31, 2024You might enjoy your own shot of bourbon to compliment the liquor these two “weirdly agreeable...
-
Book Review: Lincoln’s Hundred Days by Louis P. Masur
October 28, 2024The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...
-
Book Review: Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
October 26, 2024A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It’s...
-
Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
October 23, 2024Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...
-
Book Review: The Other by Thomas Tryon
October 21, 2024The summer of 1935 is a hot and languorous one in Pequot Landing, Connecticut. Elms yet...
-
Book Review: John Keats: A New Life by Nicholas Roe
October 21, 2024Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...
-
Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
October 13, 2024Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...