I was surprised to learn, after I read Jack Anderson’s riveting new novel The Return […]
Zone Rouge, by Michael Jerome Plunkett
The Battle of Verdun ended on December 18, 1916. Millions of artillery and gas shells […]
The True True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother), by Rabih Alameddine
Raja’s mother drives him insane. He spends a lot of Rabih Alameddine’s affecting new novel, […]
Commonplace book: July 2025
From “When He Calls Your Name,” by Catherynne M. Valente: But she wasn’t really a […]
These Memories Do Not Belong to Us, by Yiming Ma
I’ve never seen a story illustrate Orwell’s maxim from 1984 that “He who controls the […]
The Possession of Alba DÃaz, by Isabel CañasÂ
The Possession of Alba DÃaz is the third book I’ve read by Isabel Cañas and it […]
The Women, by Kristin Hannah
When her family receives word that her brother has been killed in action in Vietnam, […]