Anansi Review by Brian Tanguay Three Palestinian teenagers are hanging out on the streets of Jerusalem. They insult one another as teenage boys do, smoke cigarettes, and enjoy ice cream…
Category: Genres
The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kristen Menger-Anderson
Crown Review by Walter Cummins The Expert of Subtle Revisions opens with a conundrum in a section titled “Mira,” set in Half Moon Bay, California, in 2016: “As far as…
House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr. by Marion Orr
University of North Carolina Press Review by Brian Tanguay By the mid-1970s, Charles Diggs Jr. was arguably one of the most powerful members of the House of Representatives. The most…
Loneliness & Company by Charlee Dyroff
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay The world Charlee Dyroff creates in her novel, Loneliness & Company, is familiar and strange at the same time. New York City has become a…
Shattered Dreams, Infinite Hope: A Tragic Vision of the Civil Rights Movement by Brandon M. Terry
Belknap/Harvard Review by Brian Tanguay Americans generally frame the Civil Rights era as beginning with the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision and ending with the assassination of…
A Wooded Shore by Thomas McGuane
Knopf Review by David Starkey The stories in A Wooded Shore are mostly set in Trump country, but Trump, and politics, are conspicuously absent. We do meet, in “Wide Spot,”…
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – And How It Shattered a Nation – by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Viking Review by Mark Mansour Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” is a compelling and vivid chronicle of the most notorious financial crash in history, skillfully blending drama and meticulously researched history…
Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, published sixty-two years after his first, V, the author having reached age eighty-eight, replicates a number of themes treated…
The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
Holt Review by George Yatchisin Xenobe Purvis can write spooky, but then there are all sorts of haunts, aren’t there? Her debut novel The Hounding, set during the 18th-century in…