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: Fiction
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…
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…
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,”…
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…
A Case of Life and Limb: The Trials of Gabriel Ward by Sally Smith
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay In the second installment of Sally Smith’s captivating series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Sir Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, is once again confronted with a…
What We Can Know by Ian McEwan
Knopf Review by Walter Cummins What We Can Know is divided into two parts, each covering the same events from information available a century apart. Part One, narrated by a…
Long Distance by Ayşegül Savaş
Bloomsbury Review by David Starkey The themes in Turkish writer Ayşegül Savaş’s new story collection, Long Distance, are easy to identify: displacement, disillusionment, disquiet. Things don’t go the way we’d…
The Paris Express by Emma Donaghue
Summit Review by Walter Cummins Emma Donaghue succeeds in integrating multiple stories that involve a group of varied individuals on a train ride from Granville, Normandy, to Montparnasse station in…