
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...

Book Review: Through the Eye of a Needle by Peter Brown
February 25, 2026Brown writes that Christian leaders had to carefully deploy Church resources, spiritual and financial, to create...

Book Review: The Other by Thomas Tryon
February 24, 2026The 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
February 23, 2026Whether one approaches Keats’ life by reading a biography or by the direct study of his...

Book Review: Titian: His Life by Sheila Hale
February 15, 2026Seeing a paint brush on the floor, the emperor reached down to retrieve it and presented...

Book Review: Astray by Emma Donoghue
February 11, 2026Though some stories in Astray are more poignant than others, Donoghue once again shows herself to...

Book Review: Fairy Tales From The Brothers Grimm
February 11, 2026The value of Pullman’s new translation, I believe, lies in his willingness to encompass the darkness...

Book Review: A Possible Life: A Novel in Five Parts by Sebastian Faulks
February 9, 2026If we could follow the mortal remains or spiritual resonance of a sport-loving soldier from the...














