Christina Nellas Acosta
Tom Paine’s War: The Words That Rallied a Nation and the Founder for Our Time
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Thomas Paine (b. 1737 in England) had been in America only two years when he penned his fast-selling pamphlet, Common Sense, in January 1776. In ...Read Review
Shadow Ticket
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The latest novel by Thomas Pynchon centers on a union-buster-turned-private eye, Hicks McTaggart, assigned to find a runaway Wisconsin Cheese heiress, daughter of ...Read Review
The Hidden City (Charles Lenox Mysteries, 15)
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In 2007, Charles Finch introduced the Victorian gentleman-detective Charles Lenox, a character as endearing as a reader could desire. Not as well-versed as Lord ...Read Review
The Elopement
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With Gill Hornby’s The Elopement, readers may indulge in a third “Austen family” story. By nature, it embodies the fairy tale: part ...Read Review
Who Will Remember (Sebastian St. Cyr Mystery)
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Readers familiar with C. S. Harris’s Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series will no doubt recognize the ominous world of Sebastian Alistair St. ...Read Review
The Voyage Home (The Women of Troy Series)
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Time to brush up your Aeschylus (Agamemnon in Oresteia trilogy), and a bit of Euripides (Trojan Women) for good measure. The war is ...Read Review
Arnold & Igor
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To the non-specialist reader, a novel saturated in names, events, terms, and compositions of any period of music history poses a challenge. Add ...Read Review
This Strange Eventful History
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This Strange Eventful History, inspired by the author’s grandfather’s memoir, is organized into seven decades, 1940–2010. The first half avoids showing the ...Read Review
Elaine
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From the first paragraph onward, close readers know they are in the mind of a master writer, in the intellectual housing of a ...Read Review
Normal Women: Nine Hundred Years of Making History
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“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year?… Are you aware that you are ...Read Review
