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Drew Hart

Book Review: “No One Left To Come Looking For You” — An Amusing Excursion

Sam Lipsyte’s latest novel does a bang-up job of capturing the edgy and zany milieu of the early ’90s.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: '90s, America, American fiction, Drew Hart, No One Left To Come Looking For You, Sam Lipsyte

Arts Feature: Recommended Books, 2022

An eclectic round-up of the favorite books of the year from our critics.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Books, Commentary, Featured Tagged: Bill-Marx, Drew Hart, Ed Meek, Matt Hanson, Preston Gralla, Roberta Silman

December Short Fuses — Materia Critica

Each month, our arts critics — music, book, theater, dance, television, film, and visual arts — fire off a few brief reviews.

By: Bill Marx Filed Under: Featured, Short Fuses Tagged: A Golden Cello Decade: 1878-1888, Allen Michie, Alpha, Amanda Forsythe, Apollo's Fire, Avie, Barbara Hannigan, Beams, Camerata RCO, Connie Shih, Dan Costa, Drew Hart, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Heavenly Bach, Hyperion, In Sickness: A Memoir, Paul Hillier, Post Hill Press, Queen, rock, Sagging Meniscus Press, Sehnsucht, Six Moon Hill, Steven Isserlis, The Architects Collaborative, The Miracle Collector’s Edition, This is the Afterlife, Vespers & Complete All-Night Vigil

Book Review: “The Red Arrow” — All Aboard!

When did we last see a novel of such stimulating complexity that’s so downright hopeful too?

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, knopf, The Red Arrow, William Brewer

Book Review: “You Have a Friend in 10A” — A Laboratory of a Short Story Collection

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.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Maggie Shipstead, short stories, You Have a Friend in 10A

Book Review: “Nobody Gets Out Alive” — A Big, Brash Book of Alaskan Stories

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.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Leigh Newman, Nobody Gets Out Alive

Book Review: “Mecca” — A Wonder of an American Canvas

This is an immensely complex, deeply atmospheric story of the working class, of immigrants with global origins, many who are descendants of early settlers.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Mecca, Susan Staright

Book Review: “Foreverland” — Bound Until Death

Here’s to Heather and Bill, and this lively saga…

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Foreverland, Heather Havrilesky

Book Review: “What Just Happened” — Memorable Thoughts on “A Long Year”

From the pandemic’s beginning, Charles Finch uses the crisis as a nearly daily backdrop for musings on all sorts. The results are at once cathartic, frightening, exasperating, and often hilarious.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Charles Finch, COVID-19, Drew Hart, What Just Happened

Book Review: “The Recent East” — Exploring Seldom Seen Territory

Thomas Grattan, a New Yorker with German roots, displays an observant eye and a way with dialogue in his first novel.

By: Drew Hart Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Drew Hart, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, The Recent East, Thomas Grattan

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