“And that’s when I understood what Miss Farthingdale had meant… We don’t have a future in English because there’s no such thing. It was just
Is Lisette’s List Susan Vreeland’s best novel to date? In my opinion, yes! Because I so admire Vreeland’s pictorial imagination, I have always enjoyed her
John Henry “Doc” Holliday: Southern landed gentry, classical pianist, consumptive, classicist, dentist, gambler, alcoholic, loyal friend, detective, and horseman. In Russell’s fictional version, Doc Holliday
Men of War: The American Soldier in Combat at Bunker Hill, Gettysburg, and Iwo Jima As a former soldier in the American Civil War, Oliver
“I resist imagining the present . . . in order to finger my way along the thread, backward to the beginning.” Thus Annie Black Gunnlaugsson
Is it possible for a novel to be both an apocalyptic and a coming of age story? Or would that be a literary oxymoron, an
Let Me Tell You: New Stories, Essays and Other Writings Two of Shirley Jackson’s children have selected a miscellany of their mother’s writings that have
Slade House It’s not often that I review a book two months before its publication, but because David Mitchell is one of my favorite novelists
My Life on the Road Several times in her most recent memoir, My Life on the Road, Gloria Steinem admits her affinity for cultures that
The Fly Trap When I began reading Frederik Sjöberg’s The Fly Trap, I hadn’t a clue as to what a hoverfly is, does, or looks
My Kitchen Year: 136 Recipes That Saved My Life. Reichl’s gift, mouthwatering recipes evoking memories of our own successful and not-so-successful kitchen hours. Comfort food!
Someone It is not every book one reads that leaves you almost speechless, but Someone by Alice McDermott did just that to me. This is a
Old Glory, A Voyage Down the Mississippi Who in his right mind would navigate a sixteen-foot, fifteen-horsepower outboard aluminum motorboat down the Mississippi from the
Georgia, a Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe To capture in words an artistry larger than words may sound impossible, but Dawn Tripp has achieved this lofty
Uprooted Naomi Novik’s novel Uprooted is what fantasy films are made of. The story follows Agnieszka, who fears that the mysterious wizard known only as
Behold the Cameroonian Dreamers Not long ago, I reviewed Americanah, a novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie about Nigerian immigrants and their American experiences. Imbolo Mbue’s
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