Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I had to read Alan Moore’s The Great When twice to fully appreciate it. At the time I wasn’t at all familiar with Moore’s body…
Category: Fiction
The Story of Capital: What Everyone Should Know About How Capital Works by David Harvey
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay David Harvey has been writing about, interpreting and teaching Karl Marx for decades. In The Story of Capital he ambitiously attempts to explain Marx’s key…
Ghost Town by Tom Perrotta
Scribner Walter Cummins Ghost towns are usually pictured as abandoned places of decaying windowless houses and barren streets. Creamwood, New Jersey, is certainly not own of those, but a busy…
Leila & Khaled by Nyla Matuk
Anansi Review by Brian Tanguay Leila, a fifty-something woman from Montreal, is part of a delegation visiting Palestine, her first trip to her father’s homeland. Leila is unmarried, an academic…
The Keeper by Tana French
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins Although Tana French has won awards for crime fiction and mystery/thrillers, including an Edgar, The Keeper is little like our expectation of a mystery novel.…
Brawler by Lauren Groff
Riverhead Review by Walter Cummins The title of this collection is appropriate for each of its nine stories. In some literal brawls take place, the combatants physically scarred. In others…
Honeysuckle by Bar Fridman-Tell
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Honeysuckle is one of the strangest novels I’ve read in a long while, and by strange I mean in the sense of unsettling and rarely…
A Place in the World by Bill Gaythwaite
Pittsburgh Review by David Starkey The most recent winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize, one of the premier awards for excellence in the short story, is Bill Gaythwaite, a…
Orlando: A Graphic Novel by Virginia Woolf and Susanne Kuhlendahl
Helvitiq Review by David Starkey Virginia Woolf’s Orlando: A Biography, a novel about a male Elizabethan aristocrat who, at the age of 100, turns into a woman, has inspired a…
The Body Builders by Albertine Clarke
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Being thrust into a different place and time is one of the pleasures of reading fiction. Sometimes the place is inside the mind of a…