Host Elizabeth Howard talks to author Meredith Hall about her debut novel Beneficence, which deals with a family traumatized by death of a child by a gun.
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Book Review: “The Ash Family” — A Commune or a Cult?
The Ash Family is a full-color illustration of how the modern world leaves people vulnerable to radical ideas.
Book Review: “Washington Black” — Grappling with the Meanings of Liberty
In Washington Black novelist Esi Edugyan has defied the cliché of the escaped slave discovering freedom.
Book Review: “The Mars Room” — Women Behind Bars
The strength of The Mars Room is its compelling vision of the stultifying and claustrophobic underworld of women in prison.
Book Commentary: Karl Ove Knausgaard’s “Why I Write” — Incomplete Answer
The old questions, good as they are, are going to be augmented with new ones: Are we creating a world worth living in? Are we creating a world we can continue to live in?
Book Review: “Flights” — Exploring the Delights of the Eccentric
Given what Olga Tokarczuk is curious about, it is not surprising that her book serves up its share of goofy humor.
Book Review: “Summer Cannibals” — A Patient Psychological Portrait of a Toxic Family
Summer Cannibals’ main virtue is its keen transmission of psychological warfare in families.
Book Review: “Lost Empress” — A Novel That Takes Chances
Lost Empress’ ambition is admirable, and while the over-the-top style gets away from itself, it’s lively and sometimes entertaining.
Book Review: “Never Anyone But You” — Fiction to Treasure
Rupert Thomson’s Never Anyone But You is a quiet, expert, and inestimably engaging novel.
Book Review: “Blown” – A Madcap Journey
Blown is a short and engrossing mystery novel that also stands as a morality play, an ethical fable that suggests that our own selves are perhaps the greatest mystery of all.