Jennifer Bort Yacovissi
The Man Who Spoke Snakish
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In The Man Who Spoke Snakish, Estonian writer Andrus Kivirähk weaves a melancholy, often brutal, tale of the last gasp of an ...Read Review
The Vatican Princess: A Novel of Lucrezia Borgia
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Pity Lucrezia Borgia and the legacy of historical gossip permanently attached to her. Simply saying the name conjures up titillating visions of wealth, ...Read Review
The Wake
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Paul Kingsnorth’s challenging, heavily researched first novel, The Wake, is written in what he describes as a “shadow tongue” of Old English, ...Read Review
Twain and Stanley Enter Paradise
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In an interesting life-imitates-art twist, the widow of famed author Oscar Hijuelos was the force behind the posthumous publication of this, his final ...Read Review
A Free State
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Tom Piazza often writes about jazz and blues, and their various ethnic and cultural origins and influences. In his latest novel, A Free ...Read Review
The Big Green Tent
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Ludmila Ulitskaya’s 500-plus page, classically Russian novel The Big Green Tent offers a tale of three schoolboys drawn together by their shared ...Read Review
Crooked
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Take Richard Nixon’s well-documented political biography and much-analyzed personal foibles, throw in some good old-fashioned Cold War spy craft, and finish it ...Read Review
A Place We Knew Well
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It turns out that Susan Carol McCarthy’s latest novel, A Place We Knew Well, is a far truer story than readers may ...Read Review
The American People, Volume 1: Search for My Heart
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Larry Kramer wonders at the masochistic tendencies of Americans, to have invited the likes of Cotton Mather and John Winthrop to judge us ...Read Review
Landfalls
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To say that this debut novel is thoroughly delightful may sound too dismissive of what is a deeply researched and ingeniously told story, ...Read Review
