Book Review | ‘After the Funeral and Other Stories’ by Tessa Hadley
Eloquent descriptions and people with emotional baggage flavor this praise-worthy new collection of short stories.
David Starkey
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‘Old God’s Time’ by Sebastian Barry
Memory, grief, and long forgotten secrets play out in the latest novel from the two-time Booker Prize finalist author.
Book Review | ‘All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me’ by Patrick Bringley
What are museum guards really thinking? New memoir explores the life of one such man.
Book Review | ‘Romantic Comedy’ by Curtis Sittenfeld
Curtis Sittenfeld’s last novel takes on the world of romance, late-night-TV style.
Book Review | ‘On Juneteenth’ by Annette Gordon-Reed
A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and Texas native takes a stab at the story of Juneteenth’s integral importance to American history.
Summer Reading: T.C. Boyle Talks ‘Blue Skies,’ Life in Santa Barbara and More
The godfather of climate fiction sounds off on his latest work.
Book Review | ‘Blue Skies’ by TC Boyle
The catastrophes of climate change loom over Montecito in Boyle’s latest novel.
Book Review | ‘I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home’ by Lorrie Moore
Our reviewer deems this one “a highly readable effort from one of America’s greatest living authors.”
Review | ‘Tracy Flick Can’t Win’ by Tom Perrota
The heroine of “Election” is back … in high school.
Review | ‘The Passenger’ and ‘Stella Maris,’ by Cormac McCarthy
These two companion novels are not Cormac McCarthy’s best work.
