Doubleday Review by George Yatchisin So something happened while I was reading Tom Junod’s In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man…
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Music Against the Night by Yayun Li
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Walter Cummins Music Against the Night is a fictional biography imagining the emotional lives of two real people—John Field and Adelaide Percheron—who are known…
River Of Dreams by Robin Blackburn McBride
Guernica Editions Review by Brian Tanguay When Avery Conlon is a young girl in Toronto in 1914 she falls through the ice of a frozen river and becomes trapped beneath.…
Leaving Home: A Memoir in Full Color by Mark Haddon
Doubleday Review by David Starkey I have to admit that the only other book by Mark Haddon I’ve read is his wildly popularly 2003 novel The Curious Incident of the…
Will and Attention by Meghan O’Gieblyn
Doubleday Review by Walter Cummins I first encountered Meghan O’Gieblyn’s writing and thinking in one of her essays for The New York Review of Books. I was used to that…
The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society by James Marriott
Doubleday Review by Walter Cummins There’s an inherent paradox in what I’m doing here. I read a book about the decline of reading in our time and follow up by…
The House Where Nothing Hurts by Ali Fountain
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay As anyone who has raised a daughter knows, alliances and jealousies among teenage girls can be fierce and unpredictable. In The House Where Nothing Hurts,…
Sleeping Beauties: Where Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up by David Byrne
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins The term “sleeping beauties” was new to me as a designation for artists, technologies, and scientific theories rediscovered after they had become obscure or were…
The Leveret by Anna Goldreich
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay The Leveret came my way with some buzz about the high quality of the writing and I was keen to see if the buzz was…