Book Reviews

How do you organize your books?The books in our house are organized according to a secret protocol my wife has that I will never completely comprehend, but I somehow am...

The second studio album from experimentalist Stomach Book tends to recent emotional wounds and invites us into a space of shared pain and grief to spur a collective feeling of...

In his novella “The Prague Orgy,” Philip Roth has a Czech writer say: “When I studied Kafka, the fate of his books in the hands of the Kafkologists seemed to...

FERVOR, by Toby LloydIn one of the most perceptive of her late essays, “God’s Language,” Toni Morrison sets out her objective as a novelist: “to construct a work in which...

CHASING BRIGHT MEDUSAS: A Life of Willa Cather, by Benjamin TaylorDuring the difficult months of 2020, a writer friend and I decided to read Willa Cather’s fiction together. What a...

Review: Dr Dolittle Kills A Man (And Reads Extracts From His New Book) – London Hospital Tavern Dr John D.O.G. Dolittle has written a book all about his exciting exploits,...

AN ATHEIST friend of mine is having a crisis of faith. For his whole adult life, everything seemed so straightforward: faith was superstitious and violent, secular humanism was rational and...

WORRY, by Alexandra TannerIn a much-memed scene from the second season of “Fleabag,” the protagonist is in the middle of confession with her hot priest crush and divulges a flash...

What books are on your night stand?Lydia Davis’s translation of “Madame Bovary.” I translated a French classic by Zola, and it raised many difficult issues, so I’m curious how others...

WOLF AT THE TABLE by Adam RappIt is not uncommon for novelists to deal with speculation about how much of their own lives makes its way into their fiction. The...