Douglas Stuart returns with Young Mungo, his second novel, about a tender boy growing up in a violent world and trying to find his place. … More A Dangerous Coming of Age in Glasgow: Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart
Reviews of two books about women in the middle of a crisis, both very worth your time. … More Women on the Verge: Adèle, by Leila Slimani and The Terrible, by Yrsa Daley-Ward
A.J. Finn’s The Woman in the Window is yet another mystery novel with an unreliable, alcoholic female narrator and I can’t yawn hard enough. … More Let’s Do Away with This Mystery Novel Trend in The Woman in the Window, by A.J. Finn
In this remake of the classic movie A Star is Born, Lady Gaga falls in love with Bradley Cooper and rises to fame while his career stalls as he struggles with addiction. … More A Star is Born is a Sweet and Bleak Movie
An actress struggles toward sobriety in this fictionalized version of Carrie Fisher’s own struggles with substance abuse, famously adapted into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Shirley MacLaine. … More Postcards from the Edge, by Carrie Fisher: Book Review
“I have lost control over everything, even the places in my head.” To talk too much about The Girl on the Train is to give away its secrets, so I will be as brief as possible. Suffice to say that Rachel, a woman who has recently gone through a painful divorce and whose reliance on alcohol … More The Girl on the Train, by Paula Hawkins: Book Review
“Humans haunt more houses than ghosts do.” On the surface it would be easy to read and digest (perhaps even to dismiss) The Turner House as a simple family saga. To do so would be to miss the point entirely, and to miss an incredibly layered portrait of America, Detroit, racial politics, and more. The Turners … More The Turner House, by Angela Flournoy: Book Review
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