Sometimes it’s possible to have too much of a good thing. There’s the buffet one overeats at, leaving one with a terrible stomach ache. There’s the baseball game that runs to 19 innings and one…
A roller coaster of a novel, Beth Morgan’s A Touch of Jen (published by Little, Brown) starts off in one direction, takes four or five sharp turns and winds up being something else completely from…
An absolutely powerful collection of stories, Casey Plett’s new book A Dream of A Woman follows people trying to hack in not always great situations, with addiction, love and lust, and with simply getting by…
A powerful and moving history, Sarah Schulman’s new book Let the Record Show follows the course of Act Up New York, an AIDS activist and advocacy group, from the late 1980s through the mid 1990s,…
A novel treading a line between messy and sanitized, Detrantition, Baby is an interesting read and a remarkable debut novel, but one that feels like it’s a bit of a step back for Torrey Peters….
A haunting new novel by Patricia Lockwood, No One Is Talking About This goes deep into themes about the internet, real life, where they bleed into each other and what really matters. It’s a powerful…
It’s March and the snow is starting to melt and the Covid-19 death total has crossed a half-million; sitting on my bedside table is a new collection of reportage and essays that’s chronicled this pandemic…
A concise look at a complex legacy, An Event, Perhaps traces Jacques Derrida’s life and career, providing a clear and fascinating look at the French philosopher and his theories of Deconstruction. Born and raised in…
A wild ride through financial markets, big business and middle school, JR remains Gaddis’ most experimental novel, and perhaps his best. Told almost entirely through dialogue, most of it one-sided telephone conversations, JR follows a…
