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First things first: this novel is a masterpiece, second only to Marianne Wiggins’ previous masterpiece, "Evidence of Things Unseen." If...

First things first: this novel is a masterpiece, second only to Marianne Wiggins’ previous masterpiece, "Evidence of Things Unseen." If...

An exploration of two novels: Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan and The Swimmers, by Julie Otsuka

Now and then, a novel comes on the radar that should be more widely read than it might. Olga Dies Dreaming by Xochitl Gonzalez is one. A...

Domenico Starnone writes slim fictions, a rarity given the door stop-sized novels published recently. One might call them novellas, as...

Like a spool of yarn, of many colors, The Sun Collective reveals in strands, a bit at a time, and takes the reader along, although I cannot...

Nicole Krauss returns to a common theme: what is at the heart of a relationship for women, and, in gazing into that psyche, she reflects as...

Jack is best read in a quiet space. Slowly. Pensively. Because it is a quiet novel, told almost in a whisper. An interior narrative by one...

This is one of the most hard to put down novels I’ve read, and that’s saying something, considering all the good fiction that’s been...

First things first: this novel is a masterpiece, second only to Marianne Wiggins’ previous...

An exploration of two novels: Small Things Like These, by Claire Keegan and The Swimmers, by Julie...

Now and then, a novel comes on the radar that should be more widely read than it might. Olga Dies...

Domenico Starnone writes slim fictions, a rarity given the door stop-sized novels published...

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