Reading Wrap-Up for May 2019
A look at my reading month for May 2019. … More Reading Wrap-Up for May 2019
A look at my reading month for May 2019. … More Reading Wrap-Up for May 2019
A look at my reading month for April 2019. … More Reading Wrap-Up for April 2019
Laila Lalami’s intricate new novel follows a family in the wake of the patriarch’s sudden death in a hit and run accident. … More Life, Death, and Family: The Other Americans, by Laila Lalami
Here are the Pulitzer Prize winners for fiction that I rank among the worst. … More My Least Favorite Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
Here are my favorite novels and short story collections that have won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. … More My Favorite Pulitzer Prize Winners for Fiction
The Pultizer Prizes for 2018 will be announced on April 15, so I thought it would be fun to take a look at the field and try to do the impossible: predict the book that will win for fiction. There have been a lot of left-field winners in the history of the prize, so if … More Predicting the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
A look at my reading month for March 2019. … More Reading Wrap-Up for March 2019
I love mystery novels, but there are certain tropes within the genre that just drive me insane when I stumble on them. … More Mystery Cliches I Hate
The Tournament of Books is something I look forward to every year. Here are the best books that I discovered because of the book bracket competition. … More The Best Reads from the Tournament of Books
In Barbara Kingsolver’s Unsheltered, a family in crisis confronts the new realities of a changing world. … More Surviving in Changing Times: Unsheltered, by Barbara Kingsolver