Early in her new memoir, “Cleavage,” Jennifer Finney Boylan describes a moment of reckoning in a changing room. A size 12 dress is too snug; she...
Millicent Dillon, a novelist and prizewinning short-story writer who was best known for nonfiction that chronicled the eccentric, expatriate American literary couple Jane and Paul Bowles,...
Things are complicated further when Mikkel, immoral as he may be, reports a story that exposes a conservative politician as a pedophile. What does this mean...
MEMORIAL DAYS: A Memoir, by Geraldine Brooks Behind every good book lurks another, smaller book: a sidecar, an appendage, a mental dividend. Most never get written,...
VICTORIAN PSYCHO, by Virginia Feito “Victorian Psycho,” the second novel by Virginia Feito, lives up to its literary namesakes, delivering unrelenting gore and shock in the...
A SEASON OF LIGHT, by Julie Iromuanya In Julie Iromuanya’s luminous sophomore novel, “A Season of Light,” a father descends into madness following the news that...
Dear readers, Every so often four French words come back to haunt me: “Elle connaît la vie.” They seem innocuous enough: “She knows life.” But what...
Yet despite Baker’s righteous fury at what she saw as America’s “race policy” — which she describes as “more insidious, more hideous” than Nazi Germany’s —...
Welcome to the Book Review Book Club! Every month, we select a book to discuss with our readers. Sometimes that’s a new book we’re excited about...
Rodari insists on literature and creative writing’s centrality to a child’s schooling, and urges us to approach the subjects with a sense of delight and an...
