Michael Chabon Enchants with Moonglow
It’s unusual for an author to cheerfully refer to his own 400+ page novel as a “pack of lies,” as…
It’s unusual for an author to cheerfully refer to his own 400+ page novel as a “pack of lies,” as…
As award-winning author Emma Donoghue made clear in her breakthrough novel Room, she is a master of tight spaces: both the physically cramped confines…
In the midst of the never-ending election, America focused on either accepting or rejecting the notion that the country needs to…
Any novel that begins in West Africa and follows members of a family across an ocean to America will be…
Many of us remember our teenage years as the most intense period of our lives. The highs are higher, the…
Acclaimed British writer Helen Oyeyemi (Boy, Snow, Bird) ignores the conventional wisdom that “magical realism” doesn’t sell, or that grownups are…
Brooklyn, NY, doesn’t lack for intellectual writers that can put together a densely layered, heady, urban story about densely layered,…
With his second novel The Queen of the Night, a coming of age tale about the life, loves, and career of…
There isn’t one story in Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout’s concise, powerful new novel My Name Is Lucy Barton. Instead there are…
The Salem witch trials are often discussed as a quintessentially American phenomenon. Oh, those New England Puritans! So repressed, so…
A wise author knows that granting a main character her heart’s desire is not simply fan service, it’s a fascinating way…
Pulitzer Prize–winner Adam Johnson is renowned for taking us places we don’t want to go: North Korean gulags, Stasi prisons, into…
One of America’s foremost proto–mommy bloggers is also one of America’s masters of horror and suspense, and yet many audiences…
When a patron saint of American literature like Toni Morrison calls a book “required reading,” you pick up a copy with one…
2015 has already been a great year for books. With so much to celebrate from big-name authors—Judy Blume! Toni Morrison! Nick…
In 2013, author and critic Maureen Johnson raised a searing point about the publishing industry: regardless of content, it tends to…
Once upon a time, society taught women that men were dangerous. Then, starting in the second half of the twentieth century, we taught…
Toni Morrison’s new novel, God Help the Child, is slim but dangerous, a blade without a handle. There’s no safety to be…