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Book Review: Astray by Emma Donoghue
October 9, 2024Though some stories in Astray are more poignant than others, Donoghue once again shows herself to...
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Book Review: Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm
October 8, 2024The value of Pullman’s new translation, I believe, lies in his willingness to encompass the darkness...
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Book Review: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks
October 6, 2024If we could follow the mortal remains or spiritual resonance of a sport-loving soldier from the...
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Book Review: Raised from the Ground: A Novel by José Saramago
October 6, 2024While he has an ear for both the humdrum and the eccentric dissembling pronouncements of the...
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Book Review: Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
October 1, 2024Like Bolaño, Zambra was born in Santiago, Chile. However, he was born later, in 1975, part...
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Book Review: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa
September 24, 2024Ogawa begins by showing her readers the apparently boring, normal face of human society, and then...
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Book Review: See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid
September 20, 2024Through the invocation of epic prose forms and literary allusion, Kincaid elevates the nuclear family drama...
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Book review – Judy Battalion’s Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s Ghettos
September 13, 2024Review of BATTALION, JUDY. Light of Days: The Untold Story of Women Resistance Fighters in Hitler’s...
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BOOK REVIEW: THE PLAQUE: THIS IS OUR COUNTRY, TOO
September 12, 2024The book begins in the present time, but this is a story that goes back more...
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Book Review: The Books that Shaped Art History, Edited by Richard Shone and John-Paul Stonard
August 31, 2024Clark's The Nude: A Study of Ideal Art received glowing reviews upon its publication in 1956....