YES this book is (almost) one 1,000-page sentence. It is also very readable and one of the best new novels I’ve read in a very …
REVIEW: Ducks, Newburyport by Lucy Ellmann
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MARCH BOOK OF THE MONTH: Satellite Love
Our Book of the Month for March is Satellite Love by Genki Ferguson. Check out the exclusive video here to see Genki talk about Satellite …
REVIEW: Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann, indicating considerations that extend beyond merely those of insurability: “No policy in the world can cover me.” Might this suggest grandiosity pleased to …
FEBRUARY BOOK OF THE MONTH: The Centaur’s Wife
Our Book of the Month for February is The Centaur’s Wife by Amanda Leduc. We talked to Amanda this month about her new novel, questions …
REVIEW: The Only Story by Julian Barnes
It’s a good feeling to tuck into a novel and know I am in the hands of a master. And that was certainly true with The …
REVIEW: Five Wives by Joan Thomas
I hardly know what to say about Five Wives. I didn’t love it, I didn’t enjoy it, but I certainly admired it. What a magic …
REVIEW: Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Girl, Woman, Other is an open-hearted, wise, compassionate, and finely wrought portrait of black womanhood in all its complexity.
REVIEW: Mitz: The Marmoset of Bloomsbury by Sigrid Nunez
A lot of fine readers I know really liked Vanessa and Her Sister, a fictional recreation of the lives of Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf. …
REVIEW: I Am A Truck by Michelle Winters
Quirky and strange tale of a Francophone couple whose lives are turned upside down when the husband suddenly disappears from his Silverado truck. Winters presents …
REVIEW: The Shakespeare Requirement by Julie Schumacher
Julie Schumacher brings back Jason Fitger, the hapless academic hero of Dear Committee Members. Now Fitger finds himself chair of an English department under siege from …