Book Review: Blue Nights by Joan Didion
September 23, 2025We learn that Quintana Roo was adopted, a beautiful precocious girl with hair “bleached by the...
Book Review: Cabin: Two Brothers, a Dream and Five Acres in Maine by Lou Ureneck
September 22, 2025In September 2007, Lou Ureneck, a 56-year-old journalism professor at Boston University, was hospitalized for atrial...
Book Review: Pauline Kael: A Life in the Dark by Brian Kellow
September 21, 2025So if she wasn’t pleasant, what was Pauline Kael? She was earthy; she was tough; she...
Book Review: The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
September 19, 2025In this profound and spirited work, Pinker champions the civilizing process that, according to his detailed...
Book Review: Harbor by John Ajvide Lindqvist
September 16, 2025The family takes a trip over the frozen sea to a lighthouse. While there, the 6...
Book Review: Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
September 16, 2025The revealed mystery of “those across the river,” how they came to be and what they...
Book Review: Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion by Janet Mullany
September 14, 2025At root, the novel seems to rest on a misapprehension: that the world of Jane Austen...
Book Review: Virginia Woolf by Alexandra Harris
September 12, 2025Woolf spent much of her life trying to free herself from the grasp of the past,...
Book Review: Mr Fox by Helen Oyeyemi
September 12, 2025In a neat reversal of the Reynard myth, the students at a school that molds young...
Book Review: Floating Worlds: The Letters of Edward Gorey and Peter F. Neumeyer
September 8, 2025Neumeyer responded with scholarly esprit, but he was hard put to equal his partner’s digressions. The...




