Summit Review by Walter Cummins The Radiance is one of the most challenging novels I’ve encountered for quite a while. It delves into the complex inner mind of a character…
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Ambivalence: An Education by Brian Dillon
New York Review Books Review by Walter Cummins If Ambivalence were a novel, readers would have been left pending in the midst of an uncertainty, the protagonist trapped in a…
The Savage Landscape: How We Made the Wilderness by Cal Flyn
Viking Review by Walter Cummins Cal Flyn has traveled to the ends of the earth in her efforts to explore, describe, and contemplate a variety of wildernesses in her goal…
Switzy by Emma Kline
Random House Review by Walter Cummins I’m very late for the long list of people eager to review Emma Kline’s Switzy, so much so that initially I decided to drop…
Our Noble Selves by Kate Atkinson
Doubleday Review by Walter Cummins Like the characters and happenings in Kate Atkinson’s latest novel, its title—Our Noble Selves, a phrase of stoicism used by British soldiers—is ironic. It serves…
The Things We Never Say by Elizabeth Strout
Random House Review by Walter Cummins The title captures the central concern of Elizabeth Strout’s latest novel, which addresses with depth and complexity what a community of individuals is willing…
The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State by Jill Lepore
Liveright Review by Walter Cummins In her latest book, Jill Lepore presents her analysis of how we have reached the creation of the Artificial State where machines set the guidelines…
Endless Endings: The Many Forms of Death and What They Teach Us About Life by Ricard Solé, trans. by Eduardo Aparicio
Princeton Review by Walter Cummins Endless Endings brings to mind lines from Hotspur’s dying speech in Henry IV, Part 1: “And time, that takes a survey of all the world, …
Madame Chrysanthème by Pierre Loti, trans. by Clémence Aubert
Espresso French Classics Review by Linda Lappin In 1890, the American writer Lafcadio Hearn stepped off a ship in Yokohama, ready to begin a new life in Japan as a…