Book Reviews Archives
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Herman Koch, The Dinner…
Don’t read this review before listening to Herman Koch’s nove… more »
Jamaica Kincaid, See Now Then…
The painful tension between hate and love, the two strongest and most com… more »
Teddy Wayne, The Love Song of…
Even at 11 years old — almost 12, he’d tell you — tween… more »
George Saunders, Tenth of Dec…
In Tenth of December, George Saunders uses satire to hilariously and tren… more »
Emma Donoghue, Astray…
Loosely organized around themes of displacement and exile, Emma Donoghue… more »
Louise Erdrich, The Round Hou…
Returning to the some of the same characters and geographies as in her 20… more »
Zadie Smith, NW
The title of Zadie Smith’s fourth novel refers to the neighborhood … more »
Libba Bray, The Diviners…
In this eponymous first installment of her new The Diviners series, YA fa… more »
Jean Shepard, A Christmas Sto…
Listening to Jean Shepard’s A Christmas Story is a little like disc… more »
Junot Díaz, This Is Ho…
Some books, like some songs and movies, can be so achingly sad they… more »
J.R. Moehringer, Sutton…
Wake up in Attica, go to bed at the Plaza. Fuckin’ America. Such wa… more »
Molly Ringwald, When It Happe…
Whether it’s a chance encounter or code-red crisis, every gesture i… more »
John Boyne, The Absolutist…
War is John Boyne’s topic; his best-known novel is the concentratio… more »
Jay Caspian Kang, The Dead Do…
In The Dead Do Not Improve, author Jay Caspian Kang describes the travail… more »
Muriel Spark, The Girls of Sl…
In this slim tale centered around a London ladies’ hostel at the en… more »
Alice Hoffman, The Dovekeeper…
Reaching back to the first century, Hoffman offers a feminist retelling o… more »
Amy Bloom, Away
After surviving the pogroms that killed her parents, husband, and child, … more »
Paula McLain, The Paris Wife…
This fictionalized account of Ernest Hemingway’s first marriage, to… more »
Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the …
Now a half-century old, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest remains a p… more »
Madeline Miller, The Song of …
A lyrical, charming and sexy recasting of the fall of Troy Even those who… more »
Nell Freudenberger, The Newly…
Amina Mazid arrives in America at age twenty-five from Bangladesh after m… more »
Etgar Keret, Suddenly, a Knoc…
Stories about loneliness, alienation, depression and death in worlds of m… more »
John Irving, In One Person…
A magical kind of origin story; ultimately one of acceptance “We ar… more »
Wiley Cash, A Land More Kind …
While it may have been innovative when Faulkner did it in As I Lay Dying,… more »
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eMusic Features
Interview: George Saunders
By Amanda Davidson, eMusic Contributor
George Saunders's newest story, published only as an audiobook and Kindle Single, is told from the point of view of Fox 8, the title character who pens his tale of friendship and loss by way… more »
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