Emily Temple rounded up the best one-start reviews of The Catcher in the Rye. (LitHub) Paula […]
Lands of Lost Borders, by Kate Harris
Kate Harris says near the beginning of her book, Lands of Lost Borders: Out of Bounds […]
The Haunted Bookshop, by Christopher Morley
Last year, I read the enchantingly bookish novel Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley, a book […]
Readers Read For Joy; Or, In Which I Take Issue with Howard Jacobsen
I suppose that Howard Jacobson’s recent interview with BBC Radio 3 make a change from […]
Atonement, by Ian McEwan
Novels that feature writers as protagonists almost always remind me of the fact that, when […]
The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, by Richard Zimler
In The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon, Richard Zimler takes us back to 1506, the year of […]
The Tale of the Missing Man, by Manzoor Ahtesham
Character can mean either a person imagined up by an author, but also the strengths […]
This week on the bookish internet
The latest development in the alternate Nobel for Literature: readers get to vote! (Book Riot) […]
Trail of Lightning, by Rebecca Roanhorse
To kill a monster, do you have to be a monster? Maggie Hoskie’s deepest fear […]
Death and the Maiden, by Ariel Dorfman
It fascinates me (in a dark sort of way, I’ll admit) when people who have […]