Random House Review by Walter Cummins Téa Obreht’s latest work, Sunrise, while offering seemingly self-contained narratives about events from several different time periods, can also be regarded as a novel…
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Please Don’t Touch The Body by Emily Doyle
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I appreciate a finely crafted short story and the eleven stories in this collection easily meet that criteria. For a debut collection, Emily Doyle displays…
Harper Perennial’s 2026 Olive Editions
Harper Perennial Review by David Starkey Olive Editions is an annual series of small-format publications of eight of top science fiction and fantasy titles on Harper Perennial’s list. For mass…
Brought To You By: How Corporations Warped the Truth, Conned the Public, and Broke Democracy by Amy Westervelt
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Truth or spin. Fact or opinion. Journalism or propaganda. In our time, information flows in volumes impossible to keep pace with and much of it…
Almost Grown: A New York Memoir by Jesse Malin
Akashic Review by David Starkey As someone who has been listening to rock and roll radio almost as long as he was old enough to switch it on, and who…
The Slap and the Salamander by Chris Arthur
Serving House Review by Walter Cummins I had my first contact with Chris Arthur several decades ago when he submitted an essay to a quarterly I was editing. We, the…
The Frenchmen, or My Life in Theory by Emily Eakin
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins Emily Eakin’s life in theory began in the late 1980s when she was an eighteen-year-old sophomore at Harvard and fell “under the Frenchmen’s spell.” That’s…
Girl to Country: A Memoir by Amy Rigby
Southern Domestic Review by George Yatchisin Singer-songwriter Amy Rigby sets up the arc of her moving, charming, outsider-insider’s memoir Girl to Country poignantly in the prologue, when she considers what…
Born Lucky by Sarah McElwain
Rain Mountain Review by Walter Cummins A question hovering over Sarah McElwain’s entire novel from the very first sentence is whether the unlikely named Evening K. Titlebaum will be granted…
The Long American Shadow
Essay by Brian Tanguay I acquired American Visions by Edward L. Ayers and Democracy In Black by Eddie S. Glaude Jr., at the same time, but had no conscious intention…