The River of Consciousness by Oliver Sacks
★★★★☆ In January 2015, neurologist Oliver Sacks learned that the ocular cancer he had battled years before had metastasized to his liver. He was given six to eighteen months to live. Upon hearing the...
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Katalin Street by Magda Szabo
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Centered on the 1944 occupation of Hungary and spanning nearly thirty-five years over a handful of chapters, Katalin Street follows three neighboring families during World War II and the...
London’s Triumph by Stephen Alford
★★★★☆ “The Elizabethan and Jacobean mind was brilliantly elastic.” “Thinking a project achievable somehow made it so.” In London’s Triumph, Stephen Alford succinctly captures the expanding worldview of an insular nation that grew from...
Monograph by Chris Ware
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Chris Ware is one of the greatest cartoonists working today and the sumptuous Monograph provides all the proof one needs to understand this fact. Monograph is a memoir disguised...
The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
★★☆☆☆ Felicity Hayes-McCoy’s The Library at the Edge of the World is a feast of the senses for the middle aged female reader. Bonus points if: you love comfortably safe prose, you can juggle...
Mrs. Osmond by John Banville
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With Mrs. Osmond, John Banville has achieved an unthinkably bold feat: adopting the sumptuous prose of Henry James, Banville has penned a sequel to James’ celebrated masterwork The Portrait...
Lou Reed: A Life by Anthony DeCurtis
★★★★☆ After graduating from Syracuse University in 1964, a young Lou Reed took a songwriting job for a label that mass-produced pop tunes and released them under fictitious band names. As a sort of...
Immortal Life by Stanley Bing
★★★☆☆ Stanley Bing’s Immortal Life attempts to carve a niche within the already-crowded company of cultural staples like Westworld, iRobot, Black Mirror, and any number of works in which advances in artificial intelligence and...
Sleep no More: Six Murderous Tales by P.D. James
★★★★☆ Murder in multiple guises invades the six intimate stories of death in P.D. James’ Sleep No More, with emphasis not on the victims but the perpetrators and how they came to commit this ultimate...
