Book Reviews

In the opening pages of Kevin Kwan’s new novel, “Lies and Weddings,” a man is impaled on a crystal chandelier. Even in the act of reading that, I was wondering...

I began this review with eulogies because the best section in “The Lede” is a short one called, simply, “R.I.P.” It contains remembrances of some of Trillin’s favorite people, including...

Not long after the whale’s arrival, human interlopers arrive in the form of Edward and Joan, English researchers making an ethnographic study of the island, who quickly hire Manod as...

Vardiashvili, who also left Tbilisi for London as a child, is understandably attempting a complicated reclamation of his birthplace, but this reclamation skews romantic through the overuse of aphorism. “Funny...

IT IS always a pleasure to get a new book from the Dean of King’s College, Cambridge. Together with another Anglican theologian, Anthony Bash at Durham, he has done much...

THE OTHER PROFILE, by Irene Graziosi. Translated by Lucy Rand.Kevin Systrom, a founder of Instagram, recently confessed that the platform he helped create had lost its soul. Gone are the...

Book title: Exquisite Cadavers Author: Meena Kandasamy Following frustrations with the reception of When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife, a bold and...

THE NEW NATURALS, by Gabriel BumpGiven the size of the thing it indicts — not only America, but the entirety of modern society — it’s a somewhat spectacular achievement that...

Hello South London Book Lovers. As Christmas is approaching, I am now starting to review a few Christmas-themed books, so don’t forget to let me know if you have any...

When dreams did come true with reunification, former East Germans were shocked to find them tarnished by unemployment, lack of respect and a civic culture developed on the other side...