Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay It’s not often I start a review with, “I loved this book,” but in the case of The Perfect Tuba by Sam Quinones it’s the…
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Cheesecake: a novel by Mark Kurlansky
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I thoroughly enjoyed Mark Kulansky’s new novel, Cheesecake, set in the Upper West Side of Manhattan in the 1980s. West 86th street to be precise.…
Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness by Michael Koresky
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Before reading Sick and Dirty, queer representation in Hollywood wasn’t a subject I’d given much thought to or had occasion to study. By the time…
The Accidentals: Stories by Guadalupe Nettel, translated by Rosalind Harvey
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay I had never heard of the Mexican writer Guadalupe Nettel until her brilliant collection of short stories, The Accidentals, fell into my hands. Had I…
Mendell Station: A Novel by J. B. Hwang
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay Among the many things I liked about Mendell Station by J.B. Hwang is its realistic portrayal of working-class life. Delivering mail is a working-class occupation;…
A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay In A Case of Mice and Murder, Sally Smith introduces Sir Gabriel Ward KC, a King’s Counsel who lives and works in the Temple, fifteen…
American Mother: A Life Reclaimed by Colum McCann and Diane Foley
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay James Foley was the first American citizen executed by ISIS. He was decapitated in Northern Syria in August 2014. The act was filmed. The perpetrators…
The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World by William Dalrymple
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay In early March 2022, at Berenike, a barren spot on the shores of the Red Sea, a team of archaeologists made several remarkable finds. From…
Money, Lies, and God: Inside the Movement to Destroy American Democracy by Katherine Stewart
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay No journalist that I’m aware of has chronicled the rise of the Christian right as assiduously and comprehensively as Katherine Stewart has. From her first…
Time of the Child by Niall Williams
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay The remote, rain-soaked village of Faha is to the brilliant Irish writer Niall Williams what Yoknapatawpha County was to William Faulkner. On the surface a…