book review
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Book review: Renia’s Diary: A holocaust journal — by Renia Spiegel
(St. Martin’s Press) Renia’s diary — because that is what you hold in your hands, the diary of a young girl, a teenager, whose childhood was, as Greta…
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Book review: Made Holy: Essays — by Emily Arnason Casey
(University of Georgia Press) As an essay collection, Emily Arnason Casey’s new book succeeds on every level. Her writing is evocative, relatable, haunting and magical. Using descriptive prose…
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Book review: The Secrets We Kept — by Lara Prescott
(Knopf Publishing Group) As the Cold War began to intensify in the mid-1950s, the not-so-venerable C.I.A., referred to as “the Agency” in Lara Prescott’s sensational new novel, devoted…
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Book review: Frankly in Love — by David Yoon
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers) Frank Li is “Frankly in Love,” but just who is he in love with? Frank, a Korean American teen who runs…
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Book review: The Trojan War Museum and Other Stories — by Ayse Papatya Bucak
(W. W. Norton & Company) A collection of stories as refreshingly cool and bright as these last few weeks have been in our Land of Milk and Honey,…
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Book review: A Better Man — by Louise Penny
(Minotaur Books) Steadfast readers of Louise Penny’s Armand Gamache series of murder mysteries: rest assured that “A Better Man,” the 15th book in the award-winning series, will exceed…
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Book review: Dead Voices — by Katherine Arden
(G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers) In a follow-up to Small Spaces, Katherine Arden, bestselling author of the Winternight series, has crafted another spellbinding ghost story about…
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Book Review: Out Stealing Horses — by Per Petterson
(Graywolf Press) Rereading is its own simple pleasure, and discovering a book that you want to reread is a treasure. I first read “Out Stealing Horses” by Per…
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Book review: How to Give Up Plastic — by Will McCallum
Will McCallum has been at the front of the antiplastics movement in his role at Greenpeace U.K. He recently spent a month in Antarctica with his team, investigating…
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Book review: The Stationery Shop — by Marjan Kamali
(Gallery Books) It is 1953, and Iran’s intense political upheaval, that culminates with the democratically-elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh being overthrown, coincidentally orchestrated by the United States, is…
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Book review: Costalegre — by Courtney Maum
(Tin House Books) “Costalegre,” Courtney Maum’s slim new novel (smartly designed with a colorful textured jacket), will whisk you away to the beaches along the western coastline of…
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Book review: The Nickel Boys — by Colson Whitehead
The Nickel Boys — by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” is a masterpiece of fiction rooted firmly — and disturbingly — in fact. Inspired by…
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Book review: Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss — by Margaret Renkl
(Milkweed Editions) “Late Migrations” is, on the surface, a collection of essays. Astute observations and vignettes of natural surroundings, place and wildlife, that set the scene for anecdotes…
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Book review: Bunny — by Mona Awad
(Viking) Named a best book of Summer 2019 by Entertainment Weekly, NPR, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, LitHub and others — “Bunny” is the book to read if you want…
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Book review: The Rest of the Story — by Sarah Dessen
(Balzer + Bray) It’s easy to slip into the “summer at the lake” mood created by Sarah Dessen, the New York Times bestselling author of over a dozen…
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Book review: Hold Fast — by Marshall Highet and Bird Stasz Jones
(Globe Pequot Press) When nocturnal hijinks (and, by the way, a fantastic hair-raising start to a rollicking read) land two cousins, heirs to a merchant shipping company, in…