Books
This book is the best travelogue you’ll ever read about a terrible place you’ll never want to visit but want to experience vicariously.
Peter Ackroyd’s breezy biography captures the poet’s divided nature—but leaves his political and poetic reversals largely unexplored.
In a revised study of the celebrated sixteenth-century painter, Michael W. Cole traces how family support, artistic training, and scholarly revision shaped her legacy.
In a new novel set in a 1970s New Jersey suburb, the Belmont-based author revisits childhood, racial segregation, masculine stoicism, and a past that cannot be remembered honestly without its shadows.
These micro-fictions can feel slight, funny, or confounding—but their strange imagery and off-kilter observations occasionally land with surprising force.
Wilbert L. Cooper examines the paradox of Black police officers seeking safety and status inside an institution shaped by racial violence.
In Vlady Kociancich’s newly translated Argentine novel, an indecisive Buenos Aires lawyer wanders through Berlin, cinema, erotic fantasy, and a reality that may be entirely of his own making.
Carter Vaughn Findley’s “Dreams of Empire” charts the endurance, diversity, achievements, and eventual dissolution of a state that bound East and West for nearly six centuries.
In Neil Van Leeuwen’s challenging book, belief and imagination overlap in ways that are provocative, unsettling, and unexpectedly illuminating.
Daniel Silva’s latest Gabriel Allon novel sidelines Israeli politics for an unusually timely, expertly paced tale of Russian aggression, drone warfare, and fraying Western alliances.
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