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…
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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…
The Radiance by Ayad Akhtar
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…
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…