Loads of Learned Lumber

HERE'S AN INTERESTING coincidence. On the same day I read the March 13 issue of The Nation , which contains Richard Kreitner's excel...

CAMPUS NOVELS ARE actually getting better, I think. Consider Randall Jarrell's Pictures from an Institution , Mary McCarthy's Groves...

I DID NOT know a thing about Mary Szybist when I picked this off the shelf at the Tattered Cover in Denver last Labor Day weekend. Nice cove...

OUR BOOK CLUB read Towles's Rules of Civility last year; I did not like it, but the rest of the club did, so his Gentleman in Moscow w...

ALMOST DONE, BUT I could not say farewell to this novel without gushing a bit about the structure as well. Not as audacious as that of NW , ...

THAT'S NOT ALL. The reviews of Swing Time I saw did not place it alongside Citizen , The New Jim Crow , The Sellout , The Underground R...

WAIT, THERE'S MORE. A second deeply appealing aspect of Swing Time is that we meet Archie and Clara Bowden Jones again, in a new guise,...