THE FIFTH PETAL Brunonia Barry is another contemporary author who can deftly embroider three narratives into a single story. The Fifth Petal takes place during
Friendly Fallout 1953 is a curious combination of fiction and fact, a literary effort to bring together, under one cover, the topics of nuclear weapons,
A Strong West Wind and Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout When I go on an extended road trip, I always carry along
Rumors about the possible existence of a female pope apparently have circulated for hundreds of years. If such a woman served Rome and the Catholic
I am tempted to call Dan Josefson’s first novel, That’s Not A Feeling, a fourth generation offspring of Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s
“When deaf get together talk talk all the time. Communication, the universal need. Information. Access. Escape from the prison of silence. Talk, talk, talk.” The
Rules of Civility As I read books for “Bookin’ with Sunny,” I realize that I’m always trying to put new publications in the context of
Any book that follows the lives of European Jewish men and women during the years before and during the Holocaust necessarily traces an unhappy downward
Best-selling novelist Anita Shreve spent three years in Kenya in the late 1970s. While there, she worked as a journalist, and she even climbed Mount
Commerce, a 220-ton brig, set sail from Connecticut in 1815. Captained by James Riley, and manned by two experienced mates, four able seamen, four ordinary
I don’t think I’ve ever read such an intricately patterned novel about generations of gay men. The Stranger’s Child moves from the beginning of the
Let me begin this review with a glittering generality. I find contemporary Scandinavian murder mysteries to be graphic, violent, unsettling, and almost off-putting. I try
Dorothy Wickenden, the author of Nothing Daunted: The Unexpected Education of Two Society Girls in the West, describes the story of her grandmother’s year in
While I am reading a book that I plan to review, I am constantly thinking of words and phrases that might best describe the author’s
Another Place & Time: Voices from the Carrisa Plains Too many voices from our American past have been lost, especially those of men and women
THE ROUND HOUSE The Round House, Louise Erdrich’s latest novel, foregrounds all of her considerable talents. Set on an Ojibwe Indian reservation in North Dakota,
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