A Beautiful Place to Die brings to life a 1950s South Africa, when new apartheid laws have just been enacted and when justice is in
Belshazzar’s Daughter, the first of a series highlighting Inspector Cetin Ikmen in each novel, is a police procedural set in modern-day Istanbul. Just like policemen
Novels set in a distant time and in an unfamiliar place always appeal to me, novels like David Fulmer’s first three New Orleans mysteries: Chasing
18 In America: A Young Golfer’s Epic Journey to Find the Essence of the Game Standing on the first tee, with the sun just coming
Blood & Beauty retells the story of the Borgia family’s rise to power at the height of the Italian Renaissance. The novel begins on August
Barbara Kingsolver is at her best when she views a particular setting and its inhabitants through the eyes of a keenly perceptive female character. Writing
Whenever I read a book in translation, I always wonder whether I’m reading exactly what the author intended. Or is the translator getting in the
Sometimes, when you open a book and begin reading, you’re totally surprised. Expecting one sort of novel, you discover another. That happened to me when
Australian novelist Liane Moriarty poses an intriguing question: what might occur if/when a wife unwittingly/purposely unearths a heretofore hidden, horrific marital secret? What might happen,
Who’s the Publisher? And Why it’s Important You may not be able to tell a book by its cover, and I personally give thanks for
Truthfully, I never ever have wondered what it would be like to delay menopause forever. It certainly never has occurred to me to want to
Slow talking is what you find in southern stories, in the author’s own unhurried voice or that of any one character, and quite often the
When Anne Morrow, the daughter of well-do-do parents, graduated from Smith College, she immediately married an American icon, Colonel Charles Lindbergh, the man who recently
GIRL IN THE BLUE COAT When I reached page 239 of Monica Hesse’s 301-page novel, Girl in the Blue Coat, I thought to myself that
Circle Way, A Daughter’s Memoir, A Writer’s Journey Home, a writer’s memoir of her relationship with her writer father and her search for answers to
I am especially fond of the literary genre called “nature writing.” Authors like Henry David Thoreau, Mary Austin, Edward Abbey, Ellen Meloy, and many others
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