book review
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Book review: ‘Breaking Bread and Drinking Martinis’
Peter Langrock likes a good martini. The joys he has gained through the sharing of food and drink spark the stories that are the essence of his 180-page…
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Book review: ‘Liquid, Fragile, Perishable’ by Carolyn Kuebler
There are so many things in Carolyn Kuebler’s “Liquid, Fragile, Perishable” that ring true. The cast of characters in Kuebler’s new — and first — novel, are so…
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Review: Margolis captures simple moments in poetry
As the title implies, the featured collection gives readers Margolis’s understanding of what it means to be happy. However, by no means should this indicate that every single…
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Book review: ‘Walk With Me’ by Madeleine Kunin
In the scope of her book, Kunin is not simply taking us on a journey of language, but holds our hand as we crawl into a soft, cushioned…
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History of a family farm sheds light on what it means to be a Vermonter
In his new book, David R. Holmes tells the story of the Charlotte farm that his ancestors founded, ran for 101 years and were forced to leave because…
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Book review: The Last Wild Horses — by Maja Lunde
The takhi, a Mongolian wild horse, also known as Przewalski’s horse, is the common bond that ties together the human beings who form the emotional core of this…
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Book review: Scoundrel — by Sarah Weinman
The subtitle to Sarah Weinman’s new true crime book, “How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him…
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Book review: Mouth to Mouth — by Antoine Wilson
Our unnamed narrator is a writer who, finding himself on an extended layover at LAX, recognizes an old college classmate.
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Book review: Free Love — by Tessa Hadley
Phyllis Fischer, who possessed an “expectant, animated prettiness,” and the atmosphere, a “pregnant warm light [that] seemed dense and suspenseful as amber,” make their entrances together in the…
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Book review: Joan is Okay — by Weike Wang
Is Joan okay? That seems to be the question on everyone’s mind, except for Joan.
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Book review: Unstitched: My Journey to Understand Opioid Addiction and How People and Communities Can Heal — by Brett Ann Stanciu
Brett Ann Stanciu, the librarian in a small Vermont town, struggled after a community member, known to be a habitual drug-user and a frequent trespasser in the library…
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Book review: Anthem — by Noah Hawley
If you’ve seen the Netflix feature film, “Don’t Look Up,” you’ve already experienced this sort of hyper-contemporary, crisis-confronting satire.
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Book review: Next Year in Havana — by Chanel Cleeton
Two timelines unfurl in one city, Havana, Cuba, as two young women discover their courage, their conviction, and their loyalty.
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Book review: Sea State: A Memoir — by Tabitha Lasley
Journalist Tabitha Lasley was determined to write about the men who worked the oil rigs in the North Sea off the coast of Aberdeen, the northeast region of…
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Book review: A History of Wild Places — by Shea Ernshaw
The visceral and immediate start of this book had me in its grasp from the very start.
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Book review: The 1619 Project — created by Nikole Hannah-Jones & The New York Times Magazine
1619, a year that isn’t well known in the annals of American history, is the starting point for this fresh and exacting examination of the history of slavery…