Books
Set in Boston’s rock scene during the ’80s, the mystery World Enough serves up plenty of compelling entertainment.
Read MoreComparisons and guesses about influence aside, poet Richard Hoffman’s voice is individual, original, and strong.
Read MorePoet Rob Cook bends time and space at will, dispenses with natural laws when convenient, and shuffles sensory perception like a deck of cards.
Read MoreThe biography offers a fascinating look at Frances Coke Villiers’s tale of rebellion, the plight of a memorable woman during a tumultuous time.
Read MoreOscar Wilde’s life might have been tortured, but the writer never believed he had been disgraced, only rejected.
Read More“As morality shifts,” NPR’s Ann Powers writes, “music does, too, helping people navigate those boundaries.”
Read MoreEvidently, plain-spoken language plus doubt and apprehension equate to novels that, once opened, are very hard to put down.
Read More“To me, ’67 was a year that was different from what came after it.”
Read MoreLaurent Binet’s entertaining detective yarn is set in the harum-scarum social scene of French literary theory, philosophy, and politics.
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