Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule is a novel about horse racing at a small time track in West Virginia, where worn-out horses, trainers, jockeys, grooms
This book, a mere 146 pages of text, is jam-packed with wonderfully offbeat information about a variety of American writers and their homes, now designated
The power of a good picture book is a wondrous thing, especially those pictures books that bring historical figures to life. Author Alan Schroeder and
Dear Bookin’ with Sunny, my niece is ten years old and crazy about horses. Can you recommend any good horse stories? I can’t afford to
Don’t let the “cutesy” cover of Firmin fool you. Sam Savage’s first novel by is just about everything a serious reader, or a reader with
I think Michael Ennis is in love with Italy. Not the Italy of today’s grand sweep from the Alps down to the tip of the
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Chris Van Allsburg, award-winning author of Ants and The Polar Express, the recipient of two Caldecott Medals and a Caldecott Honor, has written a disturbing
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
The House on Mango Street: 25th Anniversary Edition What purpose does art serve? What inspires you to practice your craft? These are questions that aspiring
Alessandro Giuliani, athletic, well muscled, handsome, professor of aesthetics, and fictional protagonist of Mark Helprin’s A Soldier of the Great War, declares that fighting in
For Joseph Kanon, 1945 was a pivotal year, a time when world powers were transitioning into what would become the gray shadows of the cold
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
Calling a book ‘an academic novel’ is often a kiss of death, but in the case of Martha Woodroof’s Small Blessings, it is a breath
Memories of a Marriage is an intriguing and fascinating, slightly salacious, definitely scandalous, somewhat meandering, but never boring, none too gentle reminiscence of past relationships,
Rebels of the Kasbah – Book One of the Red Hand Adventures The Rebels of the Kasbah is a tale about the basic human needs
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