Review by George Yatchisin Despite the obvious misery of the pandemic, if you had the luck, privilege, and health to make it through, it also provided opportunity. It forced us…
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Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
Doubleday Review by Walter Cummins Kate Atkinson’s title for her sixth Jackson Brodie detective novel, Death at the Sign of the Rook, offers a broad hint that she is about…
Catland: Louis Wain and the Great Cat Mania by Kathryn Hughes
Johns Hopkins Review by Walter Cummins Kathryn Hughes appears to have taken great pleasure in writing Catland, bouncing back and forth between considering the life of Louis Wain, an artist…
Ain’t No Grave by Mary Glickman
Open Road Review by Jinny Webber Based on an infamous episode from Georgia history as experienced by two childhood friends, Ain’t No Grave paints a unique picture of early twentieth…
Home Is Where We Start: Growing Up in the Fallout of the Utopian Dream by Susanna Crossman
Penguin Review by Linda Lappin London. Amid the exhilarating social turbulence of the 1970s, Alison, a single mother, packed up her three children and headed off to a commune to…
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris
Knopf Review by Jinny Webber In the lead article in the New York Times morning newsletter of September 25, 2024, Steve Lohr, who covers technology and the economy for the…
A Walk with Frank O’Hara by Susan Aizenberg
New Mexico Review by H. L. Hix Frank O’Hara himself is not a recurring presence in Susan Aizenberg’s new volume, but the themes introduced in the title poem, which opens…
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age To AI by Yuval Noah Harari
Random House Review by Walter Cummins It turns out that Yuval Noah Harari, in Nexus, his latest book, isn’t a complete fatalist. But one has to read to the end…
The Slow Road North: How I Found Peace in an Improbable Country by Rosie Schaap
Mariner Review by Walter Cummins My own attempt at a geographic cure many years ago ended up as foolhardy, which is the common result for most who try. Canadian psychologist…
What Is It Like to Be Alive? Fourteen Attempts at an Answer
Eastover Review by Walter Cummins Despite the seeming implication of Chris Arthur’s title of this, his tenth essay collection, he is not seeking an existential generalization about an abstract ontological…