eMusic Archives: Book Reviews
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 »
Harris Wittels, Humblebrag…
Twitter has made great strides in the field of famous/non-famous-people r… more »
Jean Shepard, A Christmas Sto…
Listening to Jean Shepard’s A Christmas Story is a little like disc… more »
David Sedaris, Holidays on Ic…
Chances are you’ve already heard, or read, “The Santaland Dia… 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 »
Neil Young, Waging Heavy Peac…
Have you ever wished your grandfather told cooler stories? Like, say, abo… more »
Henri Charrière, Papil…
Papillon, Henri Charrière’s bestselling memoir of his incarc… more »
Jesse Bering, Why Is the Peni…
Jesse Bering is sort of the Michael Pollan of boners; he’s read up,… more »
Ryan Holiday, Trust Me, I…
As epiphanies go, Ryan Holiday’s came pretty late. By the time the … 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 »
Paul Auster, Winter Journal…
Death does not become Paul Auster but, in this memoir, it consumes him. I… more »
Jay Caspian Kang, The Dead Do…
In The Dead Do Not Improve, author Jay Caspian Kang describes the travail… more »
Lydia Netzer, Shine Shine Shi…
Lydia Netzer creates a sci-fi folk tale with her debut novel, weaving tog… more »
Megan Abbott, Dare Me…
Megan Abbott’s Dare Me is Bring It On in a Blue Velvet world. Abbot… more »
Carlos Fuentes, Vlad
In Vlad, Mexican literary giant Carlos Fuentes puts his own spin on the c… 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 »
Markus Zusak, The Book Thief…
Death narrates this now-iconic young adult novel about an illiterate youn… more »
Brian Castner, The Long Walk…
The last few years have produced a plethora of memoirs, articles, movies … more »
