The Booker Prize included Tash Aw’s The South on its 2025 longlist, a novel about two boys experiencing first love. But is it any good? … More Booker Longlist Review: The South by Tash Aw
Jhumpa Lahiri’s new story collection, Roman Stories, is a love letter to Rome and all of its people. Here is my review. … More Jhumpa Lahiri’s Evolution Continues in Roman Stories
A book review of Jesmyn Ward’s fourth novel, Let Us Descend, a historical fiction rendering of the pain of life under slavery. … More Let Us Descend, by Jesmyn Ward: A Spoiler-Free Book Review
I don’t think I know anyone who has ever mentioned Edna Ferber’s 1917 novel Fanny Herself to me. But it’s a book that deserves a lot of recognition, in my opinion. … More Discover This Book: Fanny Herself by Edna Ferber
Josephine Johnson is the youngest winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel Now in November, but her career mysteriously stalled. What happened? … More Was the Youngest Pulitzer Prize Winner Blacklisted? Now in November: A Pulitzer Prize Deep Dive
Andrew Sean Greer’s Less won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Is this sequel necessary? Does it live up to the original? … More Turns Out Less Really Is More: My Review of Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer
Anthony Marra’s Mercury Pictures Presents follows a wide cast of characters through Hollywood and WWII. But does he do too much? … More Hollywood, Corruption, and the World: Mercury Pictures Presents by Anthony Marra
Alison Cochrun’s queer holiday romance follows a woman who agrees to a fake engagement with someone who turns out to be the brother of the woman of her dreams. Chaos ensues. … More The Cinnamon Bun Romance I Needed Right Now: Kiss Her Once For Me by Alison Cochrun
The author of the gay classic Dancer From the Dance has released a new novel about a gay man facing old age and death. Is it worth reading? … More Life, Decline, and Death: The Kingdom of Sand by Andrew Holleran (Book Review)
24 years after introducing the world to Tracy Flick in his landmark novel Election, Tom Perrotta brings her back in Tracy Flick Can’t Win. Was it worth it? … More Is Tracy Flick Worth Revisiting in 2022?
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