Carrying Albert Home by Homer Hickam
★★★★☆ It is not irrelevant that Homer Hickam grew up in the 1950s and watched “The Adventures of Davy Crockett” on television. That Disney series popularized tall tales, the wildly popular stories, some of...
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Killing and Dying by Adrian Tomine
★★★★★ Adrian Tomine’s collection of short fiction Killing and Dying is one of the finest examples of comics-as-literature published to date: these six exceptional stories should be anthologized with the best from writers like...
Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving
★★★★★ Age cannot diminish nor practice stale the writing power of John Irving. In Avenue of Mysteries, his fourteenth novel, we see the full display of his authoritative voice. Humor and pathos are wrapped...
Best New Books to Read: November 2015 Releases
The Avenue of Mysteries by John Irving A brother and sister coming of age in a garbage dump in Mexico, Juan and Lupe have their challenges. One of Lupe’s happens to be that she...
Best New Books to Read: October 2015 Releases
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories A definitive collection of Sherlock Holmes stories spanning a century, from classic to contemporary and from parodies to serious pastiches. Goddess by Kelly Gardiner A novel based...
Flood of Fire by Amitav Ghosh
★★★★★ Amitav Ghosh’s Ibis Trilogy has reached a worthy conclusion nearly a decade in the making with its cathartic and heartfelt final volume, Flood of Fire. Ghosh’s trilogy began in 2008 with the thrilling,...
The Gap of Time by Jeanette Winterson
★☆☆☆☆ William Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale may be his most confounding play. With a first act full of inconsolable tragedy, The Winter’s Tale derails into a pastoral comedy of forgiveness; it is an enigmatic,...
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art by Julian Barnes
★★★★☆ Julian Barnes is a brilliantly versatile novelist, and with the essays in Keeping an Eye Open he proves that he can be just as erudite and intelligent in the world of art as...
Pacific by Simon Winchester
★★★★☆ To tell you what Pacific is about would be to make a list, as the number of things discussed in this book seem to proliferate per page. Incidentally this makes it hard to...
