GERTRUDE STEIN HAS ARRIVED In 1933-34, just after Gertrude Stein published The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas to great acclaim, the writer and her faithful
TINY LITTLE THING Tiny Little Thing, a novel written by Beatriz Williams, advertises itself as “a perfect summer read.” I’m prejudiced against catalogs like “100
A GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD Therese Anne Fowler’s latest book, A Good Neighborhood, is one very good novel. The first thing that will catch your attention is
MANY RESTLESS CONCERNS: THE VICTIMS OF THE COUNTESSS BÁTHORY SPEAK IN CHORUS Gayle Brandeis’ Many Restless Concerns: The Victims of Countess Báthory Speak in Chorus
BIG LIES IN A SMALL TOWN Intergenerational narratives have always appealed to me, so I thoroughly enjoyed Diane Chamberlain’s novel, Big Lies in a Small
THE GIVER OF STARS, Packhorse librarians If you love books, courageous women, libraries, and horses, you will find Jojo Moyes‘s The Giver of Stars about the
NOMADLAND An eye-opening book of investigative journalism, Nomadland explores the terrain traveled by those who are houseless—not homeless, houseless—men and women who live year-round in
WHAT IT TAKES What it Takes is a lot of grit to pick-ax your way through today’s entrepreneurial world. I have never reviewed anything that
THE AFTER PARTY Anton DiSclafani writes intriguingly insightful novels about young women who have more money than good sense. I reviewed her first such narrative,
RADIO GIRLS and the early days of the BBC Sarah-Jane Stratford blends facts with fiction in Radio Girls, a novel describing the earliest days of
TRESPASS Valerie Martin’s novel, Trespass, does exactly that—the story lines trespass on the public and the private lives of the characters who occupy its pages.
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
LILAC GIRLS Lilac Girls sweeps through the mid-twentieth century international scene with both breadth and depth. Martha Hall Kelly’s novel features three women—a New York
ADA BYRON LOVELACE AND THE THINKING MACHINE Do you have a daughter or granddaughter, niece or neighbor girl in love with numbers? Laurie Wallmark’s debut
THE OTHER WOMAN Emblazoned across the cover of Sandie Jones’ novel, The Other Woman, are words foreshadowing its amazing plot: “fiendishly clever with a twist
THE DINNER LIST Imagine deciding which five people you would like to invite to dinner ten years from now. Anyone will do, whether you know
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