Beyond Words by Carl Safina
★★★★☆ Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel was published to rave reviews in 2015. Now in trade paperback format, it has lost none of its impact and thoughtful examination of what goes through...
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A Whole Life by Robert Seethaler
★★★★☆ Born in a small German mountain village, Andreas Egger led a modest life as a local mountaineer, and, according to his birth certificate, lived to be 79 years old. In a powerful and...
Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley
★★☆☆☆ Ted, a gay man in Los Angeles, is a cute and quirky, a master of wit. He loves his dog, Lily, an equally witty, aging little dachshund. They spend all their time together,...
The Captain Myth by Richard Gillis
★★★☆☆ This is not a self-help book, nor an examination of how leaders operate in the wider world. The Captain Myth is a sports book for a specific niche: golfers, and more specifically, it...
Here I Am by Jonathan Safran Foer
★★★☆☆ Whispers of “literary gimmickry” have followed Jonathan Safran Foer endlessly, involving his choices in narration, typesetting, and vocabulary. Eleven years after his previous novel, we get Here I Am, a comparatively mammoth work...
Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art by Virginia Heffernan
★★★☆☆ The back cover of Magic and Loss immediately compares author Virginia Heffernan to Susan Sontag and Marshall McLuhan. While admirable in its ambition, these comparisons set rather high expectations that may cast Heffernan...
The Risen by Ron Rash
★★★★★ Ron Rash is a premier American writer of contemporary fiction. Do not be deceived by the setting of his work and limit him to being just a Southern, or more particularly, just an...
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
★★★★☆ Haunted by recurring visions of blood and viscera, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. Her husband, narrator of the first section of Han Kang’s allegorical novel The Vegetarian, cannot comprehend this decision as...
Barkskins by Annie Proulx
★★★★☆ In 1693, in a muddy riverbank settlement of New France, René Sel and Charles Duquet meet their new master Monsieur Trépagny and journey inland to begin a new settlement. With the promise of...
