Drew Hart
Another installment in the author’s portraits of everyday struggles — and this one is a long-winded, shaggy affair.
Aleksandar Hemon’s latest novel is simply dizzying, filled with texture, startling imagery, language in multiple tongues (keep Google within reach!), and it succeeds in most every respect.
Sam Lipsyte’s latest novel does a bang-up job of capturing the edgy and zany milieu of the early ’90s.
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.
When did we last see a novel of such stimulating complexity that’s so downright hopeful too?
You come away from this volume of short stories thinking that sure, Maggie Shipstead does write what she knows — it’s just that she may know everything.
You will have to be up for this short story collection ; you will learn a lot about a corner of the world that’s rarely captured, and is done so here exceptionally well.
This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.
Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2023
An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.
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