Eastover Review by Walter Cummins I met Jay Neugeboren at the book launch for a mutual friend after knowing about his writing for years. We shook hands and had a…
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The Keeper by Tana French
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins Although Tana French has won awards for crime fiction and mystery/thrillers, including an Edgar, The Keeper is little like our expectation of a mystery novel.…
Brawler by Lauren Groff
Riverhead Review by Walter Cummins The title of this collection is appropriate for each of its nine stories. In some literal brawls take place, the combatants physically scarred. In others…
The Boundless Deep: Young Tennyson, Science, and the Crisis of Belief by Richard Holmes
Pantheon Review by Walter Cummins The image of Alfred Tennyson I’ve carried for decades goes back to the childhood card game of Authors that depicts him with a stately continence…
Stay Alive: Berlin, 1939-1945 by Ian Buruma
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins While I was reading Stay Alive, bombs—many more powerful than those of World War II, others delivered by drones—were falling on a number of cities—Kyiv,…
A Ribbon for Your Hair: Loss. More Loss. And How We (Sort of) Went On by Stephen Policoff
Heliotrope Review by Lisa Del Rosso A Ribbon for Your Hair: Loss. More Loss. And How We (Sort of) Went On by Stephen Policoff, is a memoir about the loss of…
Time Traveling by Kate Deimling
Cornerstone Review by Paul Willis Kate Deimling’s debut collection of poetry travels through the reader’s mind like a stray clock, chiming the hours past, present, and future in a harmony…
A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness by Michael Pollan
Penguin Review by Walter Cummin In A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness, Michael Pollan makes an offhand reference to Plato’s cave, “where artificial agents are confined and forced to…
This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days by John Darnielle
MCD Review by George Yatchisin If the claim “songs are poetry” drives you batty, John Darnielle’s This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days will give you fits. Darnielle…