Hard Red Spring, by Kelley Kerney, provides even more proof that fiction is better than […]
A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson
Reading Life After Life was such an odd and wonderful experience that I was curious about […]
The Madwoman Upstairs, by Catherine Lowell
Life must be hard for the children and descendents of the famous. They have their […]
Black Rabbit Hall, by Eve Chase
Memory can be a strange thing. It’s incomplete, malleable, and entirely dependent on perspective. Questions of […]
The Best Place on Earth, by Ayelet Tsabari
When I request books from NetGalley and Edelweiss, I ask for things that interest me. […]
The Empire of the Senses, by Alexis Landau
One of the most difficult things to teach the students in the World War II […]
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig, by Stefan Zweig
After Wes Anderson used Stefan Zweig’s stories as the inspiration for The Grand Budapest Hotel, Zweig […]
A Guide for the Perplexed, by Dara Horn
Every semester, I end up teaching for a class that is assigned three topics, one […]
Shylock is My Name, by Howard Jacobson
The Merchant of Venice has vexed me since I read it in college. I was […]
Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, by Bonnie Jo Campbell
I probably should have warned my book group about Mothers, Tell Your Daughters, a short story […]