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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...

A modern master tells a melancholy tale of post-WWII Britain. By Randy Kraft Everything we read about war is about the war –...

Timely cultural fiction, short stories, a time-traveler tale and personal sagas round out the best in beach reading with stories that all...

By Randy Kraft Gertrude Stein, in the Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, famously wrote of her childhood town of Oakland, there is no...

The world had six million trees, when people showed up. Half remain. Half again more will disappear, in a hundred years. ~ The Overstory,...

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