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Since Elizabeth Strout burst on the literary scene in 1998 with the novel Amy and Isabelle she has been revealing less than attractive...

I was at first surprised this novel received early praise. The set-up is familiar: Irish immigrant cops in NYC in 1973, a dark time for the...

Elizabeth Gilbert adds to her canon a sexy coming-of-age story set in early 20th century NY, and Kaira Rouda sticks close to home with a...

For your summer reading pleasure, here are two big stories from Mexico to Zambia. ...

Rachel Kaddish's "The Weight of Ink" is a literary journey for those who like to snuggle into a big book with sufficient twists and turns,...

Now and then a debut novel knocks your socks off. Without fuss or complexity, told in humble descriptive prose, you are from the first in...

The Irish writer John Boyne is on a winning streak. Following the commercial success of "The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas," he published a...

An uncommonly fascinating memoir of military life. By Randy Kraft We all assume we know something of military life. We’ve seen...

Too often the great works of other languages to do not come to the English-speaking reader. We miss out on a lot of great fiction and...

By Randy Kraft Tara Westover is a PhD from the School of Hard Knocks. Truth, in this memoir, is definitely stranger than fiction. If...

A sixties gem you may have missed. By Randy Kraft James Salter is what they call a writer’s writer. He is a master of clarity....

Rachel Kushner is one of those writers who grab you at once or confound you. Or both. In "The Mars Room," her fourth novel, she grabs you...

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