
Book Review: The Expendable Man by Dorothy B. Hughes
March 24, 2026As befits a former poet, Hughes’s writing is economical yet stylish, atmospheric without being fussy. And...

Book Review: Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures by Emma Straub
March 21, 2026The feelings and experiences that preoccupy Straub are pregnancy and motherhood, friendship and domestic partnership. The...

Book Review: The Garden of Evening Mists by Tan Twan Eng
March 21, 2026The Garden of Evening Mists is set in three inter-linked time frames. Past and present struggle...

Book Review: This Is How You Lose Her by Junot Diaz
March 19, 2026Perhaps it’s fair to say that the big accomplishment of Diaz’s new book is that it...

Book Review: NW by Zadie Smith
March 16, 2026By calling her newest novel NW, Zadie Smith follows in the tradition of other writers, including...

Book Review: Office Girl by Jay Meno
March 10, 2026Chicago 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
March 7, 2026The course of Curtis’ campaign to document the lives and life style of the Native American...

Book Review: You & Me by Padgett Powell
March 6, 2026You 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
March 4, 2026The determination to end slavery may not have figured initially as a Union war aim for...

Book Review: Prosperous Friends by Christine Schutt
February 28, 2026A mile wide and an inch deep? Not Christine Schutt’s Prosperous Friends. Quite the opposite. It’s...














