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The life of a reader is a private one. Reading a book, whether an e-book, mass-market paperback, or vellum-bound incunable, creates an incontrovertible connection between you and its creator. Regardless of how many readers...
The Unloved is a murder mystery with a difference. The “who dunnit” is a mystery wrapped within an enigma; however, the narrative adds to the complications for it is certainly not straightforward. The setting...
Described by the publisher as “a comic spy caper and international love story,” Expo 58 is just that—and it’s terrific. Jonathan Coe effortlessly combines a Kafka-esque sense of dread and futility with a lighthearted,...
When Nick Hornby’s newest novel, Funny Girl, opens with the protagonist Barbara Parker winning the Miss Blackpool beauty pageant in 1964. Parker quickly discovers that the honor requires her to stay in Blackpool, in...
First published in 1998, Edward St. Aubyn’s On the Edge has finally been released for US readers with hopes that the masochistic adrenaline of the author’s exceptional Patrick Melrose quintet and 2014’s Lost For...
In Ruth Ozeki’s 2013 novel A Tale for the Time Being, a writer named Ruth becomes magically intertwined with a 16-year-old Japanese girl named Naoko when Naoko’s diary washes up on the beach near...
★★☆☆☆ Personal memoir and statistical enumeration intertwine in David Shields’ genre-defying reflection upon death. Shields’ (I Think You’re Totally Wrong: A Quarrel, 2015, etc.) unique memoir is a meditation upon life’s brevity and its...
