New Directions
Visitation
The central character of Visitation is a house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg Lake. The story stretches throughout…
Fireflies in the Mist
Author Qurratulain Hyder, who died in 2007, is, according to the cover, the “grande dame of Urdu literature.” Her story…
Curriculum Vitae
Part fiction, part memoir, Hoffmann’s novel could mean many things to readers, or it could mean nothing. Written as a…
In the American Grain
This is not a book you chew and swallow in a single day. Dubbed a literary classic and authored by…
An Episode in the Life of a Landscape Painter
This entertaining novella reads like a short story, in that it focuses on one incident and how that incident affects…
Massacre River
The 1937 program of ethnic cleansing of Haitians ordered by the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo gets little mention in the…
About our Reviews
Over the last 15 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 12,000 historical fiction books. We plan to upload them all and make them searchable here.
