Sometimes when picking a new book to review, it’s best not to look at the advance praise printed on the back cover. Words like “epic,
Irish writer Colum McCann, now living and teaching in New York City, has created something magical in his latest novel, TransAtlantic. At the novel’s end,
THE GOOD LORD BIRD It’s not any wonder that James McBride’s latest book, The Good Lord Bird won the 2013 National Book Award, and I
The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years More than fifty years after his untimely death, John F. Kennedy still fascinates us. Frederick Turner’s The
THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD Is it true that Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Underground Railroad “traces the terrible wounds of slavery,” as Michael Schaub wrote
WORLD WAR I, KENYAN COFFEE, AND ROSETTI An unseasonable stormy day? Time to curl up with a good book? Lauren Willig’s The Ashford Affair is
AN UNCOMMON FRIENDSHIP Just when we think we’ve read all the Holocaust books that we can, Bernard Rosner and Fritz Tubach come up with a
The reader who recalls Frederic Tubach’s and Bernard Rosner’s movingly honest memoir, An Uncommon Friendship, should not pass up Tubach’s latest book, German Voices. The
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