Review: ‘The Vacationers’ by Emma Straub
Surely, when Tolstoy wrote that "every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way" he was thinking about the myriad of ways family members and friends, their suitcases stuffed with...
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Review: ‘Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore’ by Walter Mosley
In 2007's "Blonde Faith," fans of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins mysteries had a fright. They could never be sure, but it looked like Rawlins, an imperfect man driven to right...
Review: ‘Debbie Doesn’t Do It Anymore’ by Walter Mosley
In 2007's "Blonde Faith," fans of Walter Mosley's Easy Rawlins mysteries had a fright. They could never be sure, but it looked like Rawlins, an imperfect man driven to right...
Reviews: ‘Savage Harvest’ by Carl Hoffman and ‘Roosevelt’s Beast’ by Louis Bayard
Two men, from two of America's pre-eminent families — the Rockefellers and the Roosevelts — are at the center of two new books set in exotic locales, one a novel,...
Reviews: ‘Savage Harvest’ by Carl Hoffman and ‘Roosevelt’s Beast’ by Louis Bayard
Two men, from two of America's pre-eminent families — the Rockefellers and the Roosevelts — are at the center of two new books set in exotic locales, one a novel,...
Review: ‘The Accident’ by Chris Pavone
Book publishing is a dog-eat-dog world these days as the once-comfortable industry butts heads with shorter attention spans, shrinking discretionary income and cheaper-than-hardcover e-books. So I'd bet my e-reader that...
Review: ‘The Accident’ by Chris Pavone
Book publishing is a dog-eat-dog world these days as the once-comfortable industry butts heads with shorter attention spans, shrinking discretionary income and cheaper-than-hardcover e-books. So I'd bet my e-reader that...
Review: ‘Mount Terminus’ by David Grand
It's hard to imagine a pre-Hollywood Los Angeles in which the film industry barely existed. Yet David Grand, in the dark and dreamy "Mount Terminus," transports us to a time,...
Review: ‘Mount Terminus’ by David Grand
It's hard to imagine a pre-Hollywood Los Angeles in which the film industry barely existed. Yet David Grand, in the dark and dreamy "Mount Terminus," transports us to a time,...
Review: ‘I Always Loved You’ by Robin Oliveira
In "My Name Is is Mary Sutter," Robin Oliveira pulled readers into the life of a daring Civil War-era woman who dreamed of becoming a surgeon. Oliveira's "I Always Loved...