Book Review: How I Became a Famous Novelist
/Steve Hely's How I Became a Famous Novelist tells the tale of a writer/'content manager'. Steve Donoghue reviews.
Read MoreReview of The Signal
/"You always felt time as a tangible heartbeat in the mountains. The days were short." Dive into Ron Carlson's novel, The Signal, by starting with this review by Sam Sacks.
Read MoreReview of An Expensive Education
/In his review of An Expensive Education, Sam Sacks unearths the vast geopolitical conspiracies being hatched in Nick McDonell's Harvard.
Read MoreAugust 2009 Issue
/“White Sands” by Mark Contino
Read MoreSimmin’ the Good Life
/They live, love, strive, and thrive, but they don’t scrimp, save, hate, or discriminate – is it rapturous capitalism, or virtual virtue? Phillip A. Lobo plays The Sims.
Read MoreThese Disunited States
/Brian Evenson’s stories are populated by wanderers, ciphers, and schizophrenics lost in the fog of their own frustrations. John Madera attempts to navigate the miasma of Fugue State.
Read MoreA First-Class Sport
/The noble sport of fisticuffs has done more than a little for cops, kids, and US Presidents. So why is touching the gloves so widely maligned? John G. Rodwan, Jr. steps in the ring to find out.
Read MoreFor Your Consideration
/The Academy often forgets Oscar-caliber performances from the first half of the year, but movie maven Sarah Hudson doesn’t! Here are some of her earliest nominations.
Read MoreHe Wanted to Go to Disneyland
/Sure, he banged his shoe on a podium, but there was more than that to the fun-loving, infuriating Khrushchev – lots more, as Kristen Borg finds out in Peter Carlson’s K Blows Top
Read More‘To the Great Infamy of the King’s Highness’
/Church and State collided in Henry VIII’s England, and Durham Cathedral was caught in the middle. Steve Donoghue returns to his Tudor beat to review Geoffrey Moorhouse’s The Last Divine Office.
Read MoreVery Scared People
/Who’s the greatest hater, a killer or his victim’s avenger? Deirdre Crimmins takes a stab at David Moody’s Hater.
Read MoreHumanist, Heal Thyself
/In Reason, Faith, and Revolution, literary critic Terry Eagleton joins the contentious “God Debates” popularized by Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins. Jeremy Kessler moderates the results.
Read MoreAlexander the Grating
/The only surviving full-length biography of Alexander the Great was written by a Roman. Steve Donoghue looks at Quintus Curtius Rufus as “A Year with the Romans” continues.
Read MoreThe Dog is Going to Die
/He transformed the American musical – and Judy Garland. Now Vincente Minelli has finally got his due – Brad Jones reviews America’s Dark Dreamer by Emanuel Levy.
Read MoreBook Review: Commencement
/J. Courtney Sullivan’s novel Commencement has been compared to fellow Seven Sister Mary McCarthy’s The Group. Laura Tanenbaum assesses how Sullivan fills some mighty big shoes.
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