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Kantika is Elizabeth Graver’s poignant homage to her grandmother, but it is also a testament to her talent as a storyteller, to make a narrative so believable and compelling and, indeed, sometimes funny, just as it is in life.
The plot of The Red Balcony ticks along briskly. Jonathan Wilson is a gifted narrator and scene-maker.
We are understandably upset when market forces threaten the things we consider to be sacred.
Kari Percival’s greatest thrill? Reading How to Say Hello to a Worm aloud to kids whose faces “light up” as she turns the pages.
There are so many ways to celebrate the arrival of spring with kids. You can take a walk in the rain, look for flowers or grass sprouting in sidewalk cracks, or plant a garden. After your adventures, you can settle down and read these books.
Can Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux lend literary dignity to a big-box store?
All in all, This Bird Has Flown is light but not brainless, and engagingly adorable. It’s a perfect beach read for the New Wave set.
Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.
The problem with The Ghost at the Feast is that the story it tells undermines its final argument. If America blundered by staying at home during the interwar period, it is blundering even more now by going relentlessly abroad.
Book Review: Advertisements for Democracy — Norman Mailer’s Anti-Fascist Eloquence
Guns, anti-Semitism, paranoid conspiracy theories — it never gets old.
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