Harper Review by George Yatchisin Here’s why Francine Prose is a better writer than you or me—she can craft a sentence like, “Tony was very funny, though when you say…
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Hugging My Father’s Ghost: A Memoir by Zack Rogow
Spuyten Duyvil Review by Jonas Lamb Bay-Area poet, playwright and translator Zack Rogow’s non-fiction debut playfully deploys an experimental form. Weaving together his father, Lee Rogow’s writings, imagined conversations between…
No Ship Sets Out to Be a Shipwreck by Joan Wickersham
Eastover Review by Walter Cummins Joan Wickersham uses the 1956 discovery of the fatal wreckage of a Swedish ship, the Vasa—sunken immediately after its August 10, 1628 launching—as the starting…
Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence by Sara Imari Walker
Riverhead Review by Walter Cummins Before I attempt to say something about a book that theorizes life’s emergence from the perspective of the science of physics, I should admit that…
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
Riverhead Review by Walter Cummins It’s no surprise that Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods is a bestseller in the thriller & suspense and—not as obvious to me—literary fiction…
Ghost Dogs: On Killers and Kin by Andre Dubus III
Norton Review by Walter Cummins Andre Dubus III explores his vulnerabilities throughout the essays in this collection. Despite his literary regard and economic success as a writer and university teacher…
The Same Bright Stars by Ethan Joella
Scribner Review by Walter Cummins As he demonstrated in his first two novels, Ethan Joella possesses a special ability to create a community of interrelated characters, each of whom is…
American Outrage: A Testamentary by H. L. Hix
BlazeVOX Review by Walter Cummins With every page of American Outrage—with every listing of the name of a person killed by gun violence, with every accumulating fact about guns in…
Soul, Ghost, My Absolute by Rosalind Palermo Stevenson
Rain Mountain Review by Walter Cummins In her piece “The Foghorn,” Rosalind Palermo Stevenson includes several of her own translations of Antonin Artaud, including, “The dream is true. All dreams…