
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...

Book Review: Raised from the Ground: A Novel by José Saramago
February 8, 2026While he has an ear for both the humdrum and the eccentric dissembling pronouncements of the...

Book Review: Ways of Going Home by Alejandro Zambra
February 4, 2026Like Bolaño, Zambra was born in Santiago, Chile. However, he was born later, in 1975, part...

Book Review: Revenge: Eleven Dark Tales by Yoko Ogawa
January 28, 2026Ogawa begins by showing her readers the apparently boring, normal face of human society, and then...














