Book Reviews

Yang, whose narratives are culled from interviews and diaries, represents these women honestly, but as a result, the writing can be flat ... Surprisingly, it is Yang’s straightforward prose that...

How, in the Year of Our Crisis 2024, do we feel about the Founding Fathers?For many Americans, they are inspirational figures deserving of uncomplicated reverence — the creators of modern...

A Joe Meek Anthology Unearths Some Gems The late rock and pop producer Joe Meek, who is widely regarded as England’s answer to Phil Spector, masterminded many British hits, such...

Welcome to this week in comic book reviews! The staff have come together to read and review nearly everything that released today. It isn't totally comprehensive, but it includes just...

“The Explorers,” by Amanda Blows (William Morrow) “The Explorers,” by Amanda Blows (William Morrow) The subtitle of “The Explorers” is “A New History of America in Ten Expeditions.”  It’s an...

Because my no-nonsense mother habitually said “He don’t” and “She don’t,” and my moody steelworker father never opened a book after he quit school at 16, it may seem surprising...

Editor’s note: The opinions of the smart, well-read women in my Denver book club mean a lot, and often determine what the rest of us choose to pile onto our...

PINK SLIME, by Fernanda Trías. Translated by Heather Cleary.The Uruguayan writer Fernanda Trías’s second novel to be published in English, “Pink Slime” — which was the winner of several literary...

J. Courtney Sullivan's novel "The Cliffs" is out now. (Author photo courtesy Niall Fitzpatrick; book cover courtesy Knopf)As the gravitational center of a story, few elements can match that of...

The rich are always crying poverty when it comes time to pay a ransom: “Net worth and liquidity are not the same thing!” Across cinema, the moneyed and their auxiliaries...