Loads of Learned Lumber

A DEBUT POETRY volume, and a wrenching one. Nguyen is the oldest of three children;  her brother, the youngest, died by suicide. Some time b...

I AM JUST short of halfway through with this--am on p. 480--but feel like registering my surprise at the quotation from the Book Prize Jury ...

THIS WAS TAUT and gripping, as reviewers would say, but I'm not sure what happened, exactly. The story is set somewhere in the country...

MALAPARTE (WHOSE BIRTH name was Kurt Erich Suckert--German father, Italian mother) was in on the ground floor of Fascism, participating in M...

SHORT AND POWERFUL. Toews's novel is based on actual events in a small, isolated Mennonite community in Bolivia. Women were awaking some...

FLIGHTS IS A novel, but   one could imagine it a collection of short stories, a collection that varies widely in character and setting but t...

READING A HANDFUL of reviews of The Dolphin Letters convinced me that I really do not want to read through The Dolphin Letters , but it did...