Monkfish Review by Linda Lappin In An Island to Myself: The Place of Solitude in an Active Life, Michael McGregor, writer, university professor, inveterate traveler, former fire fighter and Rick Steeves’ tour…
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Libra by Don DeLillo
Viking Essay by Brian Tanguay Returning to a book I read twenty or more years ago is usually revealing, both about the book and myself. The book is the same,…
Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder by Salman Rushdie
Random House Review by Brian Tanguay The wheels of justice turn slowly. Hadi Matar, now 27, was sentenced this past February for his August 2022 knife attack on Salman Rushdie…
Pause the Document by Mónica de la Torre
Nightboat Review by Laura Mullen “These days walks are my cinéma vérité… // Walks are my party. My cinéma vérité. Nameste.”–Mónica de la Torre At a poetry festival recently a…
Dogs and Monsters by Mark Haddon
Doubleday Review by Walter Cummins The seven stories in Monsters and Dogs were written over a long period, their composition interrupted by Haddon’s triple heart bypass. That time span may…
The Peepshow: The Murders At Rillington Place by Kate Summerscale
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins The Peepshow, Kate Summerscale’s latest true crime book, goes beyond the gruesome details of serial butchery, with corpses stashed under floors, behind walls, and stuffed…
Ocean: Earth’s Last Wilderness by David Attenborough and Colin Butfield
Grand Central, New York & London Review by Rasoul Sorkhabi David Attenborough, the world-famed BBC broadcaster and writer of nature documentaries, celebrated his 99th birthday on May 6th this year.…
Hot Air by Marcy Dermansky
Knopf Review by George Yatchisin In Marcy Dermansky’s engrossing novel of (mis)manners Hot Air, third person limited isn’t just a narrative technique, it’s a view of the world where solipsism…