Book Reviews Archives
Jean Shepard, A Christmas Sto…
Listening to Jean Shepard’s A Christmas Story is a little like disc… more »
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the …
Now a half-century old, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest remains a p… more »
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man…
Ernest Hemingway famously took his own life in 1961 after becoming a brok… more »
Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Als…
It’s hard to imagine, but Hemingway’s magnum opus was origina… more »
Ernest Hemingway, The Nick Ad…
Needless to say, Ernest Hemingway’s sudden suicide left his literar… more »
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell …
Few authors loved the hard, sad ending as much as Ernest Hemingway did, a… more »
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom th…
In a very literal sense, For Whom the Bell Tolls is about a man who needs… more »
Patricia Highsmith, Patricia …
Patricia Highsmith reveals the troubled minds behind heinous crimes Patri… more »
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bova…
A vibrant new translation of a centuries-old classic Gustave Flaubert… more »
Anne Frank, Anne Frank: The D…
As much a record of a young girl’s maturity as it is a chilling gli… more »
Saul Bellow, Herzog
A beloved epic of American isolation, alienation and obligation A classic… more »
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s …
This audiobook may not be in 3-D, but Christopher Plummer’s animate… more »
Judy Blume, Are You There God…
The proto-YA novel Since it first appeared in 1970, Judy Blume’s th… more »
George Orwell, 1984
A great way to experience a forever-vital classic Nowadays, 1984 might no… more »
Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable …
A posthumous look at Hemingway’s years in Paris Published in 1961, … more »
Charles Portis, True Grit…
ever In most cases, “Movie or book?” comparisons are a matter… more »
Herman Melville, Moby Dick…
Here’s the thing your teachers never told you: Moby Dick is funny. … more »
Aldous Huxley, Brave New Worl…
A science fiction masterpiece that feels close to fact In this age of fro… more »
Joseph Heller, Catch-22…
A skewering war satire 50 years before Comedy Central Today, satirists li… more »
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in …
One of the most wise and loving classics of children’s fiction I wo… more »
Dorothy Parker, The Portable …
A collection of criticism, poetry, and fiction from the acid-tongued mast… more »
Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revi…
It’s tempting to say that Brideshead Revisited is the story of one … more »
Jack Kerouac, On the Road…
The book that launched a thousand road trips The book that launched a tho… more »
D. H. Lawrence, Lady Chatterl…
Canonical literature, yes — but also a dirty book, and a still-subv… more »
