Knopf Review by David Starkey When I finished reading Maggie O’Farrell’s new novel Land, I thought of an Aboriginal Australian proverb that roughly translates as “Land is the story of…
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Killing Spree by Jorie Graham
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Review by Laura Mullen “Then the rain came and we thought it / might clean us. / It did not clean us.” In his Theses on…
Talking to the Wolf by Rebecca Chace
Red Hen Review by Walter Cummins The inseparability of past and present permeates this novel through the lives of the four women friends whose stories alternate in the telling. It…
Body Double by Hanna Johansson, translated by Kira Josefsson
Catapult Review by Walter Cummins Although I read a translation of this novel, I assume the English sentence structure replicates that of the original Swedish, a series of flat statements…
Agnes Lives! by Hallie Elizabeth Newton
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I have never read a novel in which the protagonist searches for someone to take their life. Meet Agnes Maurer, follow her over the course…
Washington Is Burning: Corruption and Lies in the Age of Trump by Andrew Cockburn
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay Andrew Cockburn opens this timely collection by recounting the exploits of his distinguished relative, Admiral Sir George Cockburn of the Royal Navy, during the War…
Tin Can Coast: A History of Industry, Greed, and Fishing in the Golden State by Joseph Ogilvy
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay What do sea otters, abalone and sardines have to do with the settling and development of California? What can these creatures reveal about the age-old…
Crocodilopolis by John Manuel Arias
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Is it inevitable that the sins of fathers be visited upon their sons? Perhaps not, but sons haunted by their fathers is one of the…
Five Weeks in the Country by Francine Prose
Harper Walter Cummins Readers can fantasize the meeting of two literary titans as an opportunity for an exchange of legendary brilliance. But it doesn’t always work out that way. When…
White River Crossing by Ian McGuire
Crown Review by David Starkey If you were thinking it would be a good idea to send a group of mismatched and underprepared people to Canada’s far north in search…