Book Review: The Land of Steady Habits
/An affluent suburban family breaks apart and re-forms in this remarkably assured debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: Cambridge
/A precocious young girl and her family travel far and wide from her beloved home of Cambridge, Massachusetts
Read MoreBook Review: An Unnecessary Woman
/In chaos-plagued Beirut, a voracious reader lives an oddly fulfilling secret life
Read MoreBook Review: Orfeo
/A retired small-town music professor becomes an unlikely fugitive from the law in Richard Powers' latest novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Crane Wife
/When an ordinary man pulls an arrow from the wing of a crane, extraordinary things begin to happen in the new novel by Patrick Ness
Read MoreBook Review: Alena
/Don't be fooled by the "Rebecca" echoes - there's a lot more to Rachel Pastan's "Alena" than mere Manderley-redux
Read MoreBook Review: Leaving the Sea
/A new collection of old short stories from the writer of "The Flame Alphabet"
Read MoreBook Review: Graphic the Valley
/A young man born and raised in the wild of Yosemite Valley is forced into a series of confrontations with an encroaching outside world.
Read MoreBook Review: An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky
/The gap between reality and the words with which people try to capture it lies at the heart of Dan Beachy-Quick's intelligent, lyrical novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P.
/A self-absorbed young Brooklyn writer (what else?) goes from relationship to relationship in search of ... what, exactly?
Read MoreBook Review: The Tale of Raw Head & Bloody Bones
/Jack Wolf's risk-taking debut explores the boundaries of insanity and rationality
Read MoreBook Review: Abide with Me
/In a novel that's not as easy as it looks, a soldier comes home to his small Vermont town from Afghanistan - and to the young woman he left behind there.
Read MoreBook Review: Honor
/The barbaric custom of 'honor killing' is the hinge on which best-selling author Elif Shafak's complex new novel turns
Read MoreBook Review: The Sunshine When She's Gone
/With the arrival of a new baby, a young Brooklyn couple say good-bye to sleep ... and start making some very strange decisions.
Read MoreBook Review: All the Light There Was
/In this historical novel, the Armenian community of Paris negotiates the arrival of the Nazis - and a young girl navigates her first romance
Read MoreBook Review: The Blue Book
/A young woman finds herself on a ship at sea with both her fiance and a mysterious man from her past, and it's all like something you'd find in a book ...
Read MoreBook Review: The Carriage House
/A patrician family copes with all kinds of disappointment in Louisa Hall's not-at-all-disappointing debut novel
Read MoreBook Review: The Average American Marriage
/The horny, feckless narrator of Kultgen's "The Average American Male" returns: married, with kids - and, of course, lusting after a co-worker
Read MoreBook Review: A Week in Winter
/Unsure of what to do with her life, a woman turns an old stone house into an inn on the coast of Ireland, and strangers begin to gather ...
Read MoreBook Review: I Will Have Vengeance
/In 1931 Naples, Commissario Ricciardi pursues the most desperate of criminals, driven by an absolute commitment to justice - and helped by a gift he alone possesses.
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