John Irving’s In One Person is another book I would not have picked up, let alone […]
The Two Hotel Francforts, by David Leavitt
Julia Winters does not want to be in Lisbon. But then, in 1940, few of […]
The Betrayers, by David Bezmozgis
Baruch Kotler has just arrived in Yalta to find that his hotel reservation has evaporated. […]
Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel
The events of Emily St. John Mandel’s Station Eleven drift back and forth in time, some […]
The Madonnas of Leningrad, by Debra Dean
Alzheimer’s is a devastating illness. Newer memories disappear, leaving only older and older memories. Marina […]
Sweetness #9, by Stephan Eirik Clark
It is a truth universally acknowledged—at least it should be—that the Western diet is crap. […]
The Great and Calamitous Tale of Johan Thoms, by Ian Thornton
If you thought you had made a mistake that led to the greatest disasters of […]
The Anatomy of Dreams, by Chloe Krug Benjamin
We spend a lot of time thinking about sleep, mostly about how none of us […]
The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, by Tom Rachman
I shouldn’t have liked Tom Rachman’s The Rise and Fall of Great Powers. It’s literary […]
In Paradise, by Peter Matthiessen
After nearly 70 years, what is left to say about the Shoah that hasn’t already […]