The Allure Of Living In A Cult On A Mountain In ‘The Ash Family’
Molly Dektar creates a North Carolina-based cult that promises answers to the searching.
Category: Reviews
‘Spring’ Might Be Ali Smith’s Best Season Yet
The third novel in her seasonal quartet is a shot of hope in the end-times.
‘Lost Children Archive’ Invents A New Way To Tell The Immigrant Story
Valeria Luiselli tries to find a way to get you to care.
Robert Caro Keeps Writing Into The Sunset With ‘Working’
Death looms over Robert Caro’s indispensable new memoir, Working. At the age of 83, the consummate historian has dedicated theContinue Reading
Time Travel Makes Love Possible in ‘Opposite of Always’
In Justin A. Reynold’s debut YA time-travel romance, Opposite of Always, Jack King is a high school senior who isContinue Reading
Instead of Climaxing, Novels Should ‘Meander Spiral Explode’
Jane Alison’s new book challenges the traditional “narrative arc.”
Escaping a Male Artist’s Shadow in ‘The Age of Light’
On Whitney Scharer’s novel about the photographer Lee Miller and the artist Man Ray.
‘Immediate Song’ Is a Lush, Sparkling Book of Poetry
In his fifth collection, Dan Bogen begs us to pay attention.
‘Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls’ Is About Reckoning and Reparations
On T Kira Madden’s debut memoir about growing up in Boca Raton.
John Williams’ First Novel ‘Nothing But the Night’ Was an Early Glimpse of Genius
First published in 1948, it foreshadowed the greatness of ‘Stoner’ and ‘Augustus.’
