All Book Reviews
'Missoula' considers campus rapes at the University of Montana during a two-year periodThe author of “Into Thin Air” and “Under the Banner of Heaven” looks at a national problem through one city’s history of sexual violence.
'The Spy’s Son’ is a startling story of a father-son team who bluffed the CIAA powerful father-son bond allowed the Nicholsons to mastermind treason and hoodwink the US not once but twice, all right under the nose of a clueless system that failed spectacularly.
'Re Jane' cleverly recasts Jane Eyre as a Korean American from QueensPatricia Park's debut novel is a sensitive, witty tale of the search for belonging.
'The Great War of Our Times' offers an insider's view of the war on terrorMichael Morell, former Deputy Director of the CIA, presents a memoir that is both an eye-opener and a warning.
'Academy Street' follows a young woman – and her unquenched yearning – from Ireland to NY and back againAn exiled Irish girl turned émigré mother of New York lives a full life in just under 150 pages.
'So You've Been Publicly Shamed' considers today's cruel new forms of public punishmentIn an age of new connectivity online and beyond, a reporter finds empathy for those who’ve faced mortifying infamy.
'The Ingenious Mr. Pyke' is the brilliant biography of an audacious intellectAn obituary in the London Times called inventor, fugitive, and spy Geoffrey Pike 'one of the most original yet unrecognized figures of the twentieth century.'
'Daughters of the Samurai' profiles three remarkable women who influenced modern Japanese historyThe true and fascinating story of three 19th-century Japanese girls who 'spanned the globe and became fluent in two worlds at once.'
'The Wright Brothers' is David McCullough's affectionate portrait of aviation's pioneering brothersMcCullough, who belongs to what might be called the triumphalist school of American history, gives Wilbur and Orville Wright heroic treatment.
'God Help the Child' is Toni Morrison's latest exploration of the hurt that drives usIn her eleventh novel, the Nobel Prize winner continues to create beauty from the anger and defining wounds of her characters.
'Mapmaker' pits a young intern against time and technologyIn this taut and techy tale, protagonist Tanya Barrett must battle powerful enemies to uncover the truth about her father and herself.
'The Turner House' – a magnificent, unsentimental debut – visits the struggles of Detroit through one family's history'Humans haunt more houses than ghosts do,' notes Angela Flournoy in her evocative novel about the complicated feelings connected to a family home.
'Another Little Piece of My Heart' is the 'unauthoritative' memoir of one of America's first rock criticsRichard Goldstein offers a first-hand report of '60s counter-culture and rock.
'Dreamland' is the must-read book about America's heroin crisisAward-winning journalist Sam Quinones combines thorough research with superlative narrative skills to produce a horrifying but compulsively readable book about opiate addiction in the United States.
Celebrated poet Jane Hirshfield explains poetry as ‘a truing of vision’Hirshfield offers essays, poems that inspire fresh views of the familiar.
'This Present Moment' shares poet, environmentalist Gary Snyder's personal insightsSnyder's new work focuses on the here and now.
'Swan Song 1945' illustrates war-time suffering using ordinary German voicesAs part of a 35-year project, Walter Kempowski brought together bits and pieces of German diaries, letters, and autobiographies.
'In Montmartre' tells a compulsively readable story of 20th-century artSue Roe travels to Paris to track the birth of modernist art – one of the most interesting tales in all of art history.
'All the Wild that Remains' honors two great authors of the American WestEdward Abbey and Wallace Stegner – opposites in character and temperament – shared an abiding love of America west of the hundredth meridian.
'The Shadow of the Crescent Moon' mourns the damage done in PakistanThis novel of life in a Pakistan gripped by violence comes from the daughter of one of the country's political dynasties.
