Books
Convenience Store Woman is an achievement — a satiric look at a mind that is intent on remaining empty.
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Rupert Thomson’s Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.
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Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.
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There’s something Shakespearian about the grasp of Philip Roth’s fiction.
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Roberta Silman’s engaging and deeply felt novel is a reminder of what it means to carry a historical burden on both a personal and national level.
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Do these “four late nineteenth-century visionaries” still speak to us?
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Hunting the Truth is a handbook on how to become an effective activist and an exciting, often awe-inspiring read.
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“It seemed worthwhile to me to think about how the spiritual currents Billie Holiday navigated might have shaped her life and her sound and what she and others made of them.”
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So Lucky is a tough, accomplished novel, a book that readers didn’t know they needed.
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Book Commentary: Philip Roth — American Warnings
In the end, Philip Roth produced the greatest body of work in the 20th century since William Faulkner and Saul Bellow and I.B. Singer.
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