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
Toni Morrison won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for Beloved, a novel about the ghosts of slavery. Is it worthy of the title Great American Novel? … More Can America Reckon With the Ghosts of Slavery? Beloved: A Pulitzer Prize Deep Dive
The term “Great American Novel” has been thrown around a great deal. But what does it mean? And does any book embody the elusive ideal? … More What is the Great American Novel?
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?
The literary world was shocked when no Pulitzer Prize for Fiction was awarded in 2012 despite the existence of three finalists. What happened? … More Do Book Prizes Owe Us a Winner Every Year? A Deep Dive into the Pulitzer Prize Controversy of 2012
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
Dario Diofebi’s debut novel about Las Vegas and the people who get caught up in it thinks of Sin City as a microcosm for America. Is it? … More Paradise, Nevada and Las Vegas as America
A review/rant about Bianca Marais’ novel If You Want to Make God Laugh, an unintentionally offensive story about three women in post-apartheid South Africa. … More Here Comes a Book Rant
I’ve been sitting on this review for a while now because I keep turning it over and over in my head, and to be brutally honest, I’m trying to decide how much I actually like this book. Published in 1978, Dancer From the Dance is a perfect encapsulation of the gay subculture that thrived in … More My Deep Dive into Dancer from the Dance
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