Bellevue Literary
Hap and Hazard and the End of the World
The narrator of this dreamlike novel is an unnamed seven-year-old girl who simply wants to know what is true and…
A Fugitive in Walden Woods
Samuel Long escapes slavery in 1844 and travels the Underground Railroad until he reaches Concord, Massachusetts, and eventually Walden Pond.…
Jerzy
By peeling off layers of fiction to expose the facts of Jerzy Kosinski’s life, author Jerome Charyn chops through the…
The Attempt
The English edition of Czech author Platzová’s latest novel is a condensed and masterful example of experimental literary fiction with…
A Loaded Gun: Emily Dickinson for the 21st Century
An endnote to his novel The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, Charyn’s A Loaded Gun further supports his case for…
American Meteor
April 1865. Private Stephan Moran, 18, bugler for the 173rd New York, loses one eye through carelessness with his gun.…
The Surfacing
Lieutenant Morgan is at the edge of the known world in 1850, with plenty of worries on his mind. His…
The Boy in His Winter
Huckleberry Finn floats down the Mississippi without aging until the early 21st century, when he encounters Hurricane Katrina. Arrested for…
About our Reviews
Over the last 20 years The Historical Novels Review (the society’s print magazine for our members) has published reviews of some 15,000 historical fiction books.
