Very 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 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.
Read MoreReview of Public Enemies
/Sarah Hudson reviews Michael Mann's Public Enemies, scrambled plot and all: "The exquisite production deserves to be seen on a big screen but no one will blame you if you sit this one out."
Read MoreReview of Reality Check
/Lambrusco describes Peter Abrahams's Reality Check, as "so gripping, so smart, and so completely worthwhile."
Read MoreHow Could You Stop Loving Me?
/Adam Golaski grew up reading Jay McInerney and wanting to walk in his shoes. In How It Ended, those soles are a little scuffed.
Read MoreLittle Frozen Yogurt Shop of Horrors
/The bowling alleys and corner stores of Jim Krusoe’s middle America are the source of oddities beyond imagining—until you’ve read Sharon Fulton’s review of his novels, that is
Read MoreThe Music of the Mind
/Aleksandar Hemon’s prose has scarcely been mentioned without the accompanying adjective ‘Nabokovian’; John Madera looks at Hemon’s new collection of stories Love and Obstacles to see whether the modifier fits.
Read MoreFamily Through Fiction
/In The Enchantress of Florence, Salman Rushdie has written his most Melvillean novel. John G. Rodwan, Jr. indulges in some Melvillean digressions as he explains just exactly what that means.
Read More‘May Your BlackBerry Rot in Hell’
/Brilliant novelist/amateur crank Mark Helprin despairs of your online thievery, and Esther Schell despairs of his new book, Digital Barbarism.
Read MoreGlory at Half Price
/Larry Tye has written a book about the greatest, longest baseball career to date; Brad Jones benches the Babe and tallies up Satchel.
Read MoreMystery Balls
/Flotsam and jetsam clutter Javier Calvo’s novel Wonderful World, but do they choke its flow? Lianne Habinek, our steadfast guide, charts its course.
Read MoreClassics Illustrated
/An affection for annotated classics and an abiding love for The Wind in the Willows makes Honoria St. Cyr singularly suited to review the new annotated edition of Kenneth Grahame’s classic, edited by Seth Lerer—she shares her discoveries here
Read MoreReview of BoneMan's Daughters
/In his review of BoneMan's Daughters, Steve Donoghue takes Ted Dekker to task, writing, "the experience is constantly given an extra-gummy sheen by carrying a freight of Biblical and quasi-Biblical double meanings."
Read MoreReview of In the Courts of The Sun
/In his review of In the Courts of the Sun, Khalid Ponte discusses sci-fi conventions, time travel, plague, and the Mayan calendar
Read MoreNo Hugging, No Learning
/Colson Whitehead, one of our most intellectually satisfying writers, has written a “novel” that meanders suspiciously like a memoir. Sam Sacks reviews Sag Harbor.
Read MoreQueen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland
/A excerpt from Susan Fraser King’s forthcoming novel about Margaret of Scotland
Read MoreGiants Hit the Road
/An excerpt from Steve Kluger’s novel Last Days of Summer
Read MoreStillbourne
/Eric van Lustbader throws every cliche in the kitchen into Robert Ludlum’s endless Bourne saga, attempting to keep the pot boiling. Greg Waldmann tastes the stew.
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