Harper
Spinning at the Edges
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This novel, set in the 1940s and the early 2000s, portrays a familiar malaise in our culture, in which otherwise capable people can’...Read Review
The Library of Leaving
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The most affecting espionage novels offer high stakes with political and emotional consequences, both, and Emily Dunlay’s second novel (after Teddy) belongs ...Read Review
Children of the Wild
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Near Ewer’s Rock, Virginia, Roy and Samantha grow up as wild children, at home in the woods. Sam, the preacher’s daughter, ...Read Review
Five Weeks in the Country
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In 1857, Hans Christian Andersen shows up at Charles Dickens’s country home in Kent, having received an impulsive, soon to be regretful, invitation ...Read Review
Marble Hall Murders (Susan Ryeland Series, 3)
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This third entry in the Susan Ryeland mystery series is a joy to read. Cleverly framed as a “book within a book,” the ...Read Review
Sharpe’s Storm (The Sharpe Series, 19)
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A benchmark of quality in military historical fiction, the long-running Sharpe series already takes the eponymous hard-fighting rifleman from 1799 to the 1820s, but ...Read Review
One of Them
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Miriam Anne Bishop returns to Vassar for her sophomore year, quickly settling in again with her clutch of WASP friends. But Anne, who ...Read Review
The Strangers
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Ekow Eshun describes his monumental work The Strangers as creative nonfiction, and it embraces the best of both fiction and nonfiction writing. The ...Read Review
No Friend to This House
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In her latest retelling of the Greek myths, Natalie Haynes turns to Jason & the Argonauts and the Medea story. The tale of ...Read Review
Typewriter Beach
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In early 1957, twenty-two-year-old actress Isabella Giori is being groomed to be Hollywood’s new It Girl. Despite an odd and frustrating audition with ...Read Review
