New Author Weaves Story Of Family And Difficulty
The Leary family—Eileen, a nurse; her professor husband, Ed; and their ordinary son, Connell—are like most families. Their upward trajectory in...» E-Mail This
View Article'Soldier Girls' Is A Compelling Portrait Of Women In War
Helen Thorpe profiles three women who joined the Indiana National Guard before 9/11 in her compelling new book, Soldier Girls: The Battles of Three...» E-Mail This
View Article'Internal Medicine' Makes Difficult Stories Accessible
Internal Medicine by Terrence Holt is a compilation of nine stories that loosely reflect Holt’s experience as an internal medicine resident. Each story...» E-Mail This
View Article'Being Mortal' Is A Bold Vision
“Being Mortal is about the struggle to cope with the constraints of our biology.” This is Atul Gawande’s observation in his important new book, Being...» E-Mail This
View ArticleA Challenging Collection of Cocktails
Leave it to the creatives at the Berkeley-based Ten Speed Press to team up with the uber-fanatic leaders of the craft cocktail underground to create...
View Article'Secret Wisdom' Is Thoroughly Satisfying
Christopher Scotton’s debut novel The Secret Wisdom of the Earth is riveting. Set in Medgar, Kentucky, in 1985, it is the multigenerational story of a...
View ArticleA Relentless 'Descent'
Tim Johnston’s suspenseful novel, Descent, kept me up late. Then, I reached for it first thing the next morning. Caitlin Courtland, 18, disappears in...
View ArticleStory Collection Brings Secrets To The Surface
In an interview, short story writer Charles Baxter explained that, “the short story begins when things start to go wrong.” Elsewhere, he maintained that...
View Article'The Whites' Is Electrifying
Richard Price writes immaculate crime novels. He set his lengthy novel Clockers in one square mile of the Lower East Side of Manhattan, where a cop can...
View Article'Dead Wake' May Be Larson's Best Yet
If you’re travelling to Berlin, you’d do well to read Erik Larson’s In the Garden of Beasts. Going to Chicago? Read his The Devil in the White City....
View Article'Just Mercy' Will Change How You See The World
Bryan Stevenson is the executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery, Ala., a private, nonprofit human rights organization, helping...
View Article'Comma Queen' Is A Joy To Read
Mary Norris describes the birth of her love affair with the New Yorker in her new book Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen. In the summer...
View Article'Light Of The World' Is A Portrait Of Love, Life And Loss
The Light of the World: A Memoir is an elegant book by Elizabeth Alexander, a poet, mother and widow. Her husband of 16 years was found dead next to...
View Article'Hold Still' Is Not To Be Missed
Sally Mann’s exhibition of photographs of her children brought her persecution. She was accused of exploitation because of the naked images she produced...
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