Book Reviews

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam

Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam Maybe not the best audiobook choice for the day after a coup-attempt and…

The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson The seventeen…

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones I picked up Dreamland at the suggestion of a person…

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth Okay, so a haunted girls boarding school set in Little Compton, Rhode Island...…

White Ivy by Susie Yang This review originally appeared in the New York Journal of Books. White Ivy is a suspenseful…

Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson To write a memoir in prose, to distill each experience into just the right…

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman With an equal measure of humor and philosophy, Backman's latest work examines the intricacies of…

The Book of V by Anna Solomon I loved this book's ambition. Any modern retelling of a biblical character has…

Jacobo's Rainbow by David Hirshberg May 2021 Although set in the nineteen sixties, David Hirshberg’s Jacobo’s Rainbow is infused with…

Cassandra Speaks is Lesser's musing on how it might be different if women told our civilization's earliest stories, how it…