Jenny Lyons
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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: Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century — by Kim Fu
Our reviewer calls this a startling and original collection of short stories.
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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…
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Book review: The Sentence — by Louise Erdrich
When we first meet Tookie, she’s in the midst of making one of the worst decisions of her life, which is, in fact, a crime, and lands her…
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Book Review: Matrix — by Lauren Groff
A National Book Award finalist this year, “Matrix” is a feat of storytelling by a master of fiction.
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Book review: Powder Days — by Heather Hansman
You know ski season is right around the corner when the ski films drop, but this year, a ski book has dropped, so let’s go, let it snow.
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Book review: All the Feels — by Olivia Dade
Romance novels, as a genre, are enjoying a resurgence — the guarantee of a happy ending can make the experience of reading one very relaxing and enjoyable in…