Book Review | ‘I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are’ by Rachel Bloom
The “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” star’s memoir is both LOL funny and grimace-making.
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Book Review | ‘The Big Green Tent: A Novel’ by Ludmila Ulitskaya, Translated by Polly Gannon
A Russian epic in the tradition of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, set in the period after Stalin’s death.
Book Review | ‘The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of The Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture’ by Tricia Romano
A mostly oral history of America’s most important alternative weekly paper — and this paper’s Editor in Chief just happened to hold that same title at the Voice.
Book Review | ‘Gilded Age Cocktails: History, Lore, and Recipes from America’s Golden Age’ by Cecelia Tichi
For bitter or for worse, weaving history in a fun if boozily arranged line.
Book Review | ‘Last Acts’ by Alexander Sammartino
Father-son satire takes place at a gun shop in a “godforsaken Phoenix-adjacent strip mall.”
Book Review | ‘California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline’ by Rosanna Xia
An environmental reporter takes a look at people who are doing their best to deal with the realities of rising sea levels.
Book Review | ‘The Writer’s Garden: How Gardens Inspired the World’s Great Authors’ by Jackie Bennett, with photographs by Richard Hanson
‘The Writer’s Garden’ is a coffee table book sure to inspire conversations — and inspirations.
Book Review | ‘The Suicide Museum’ by Ariel Dorfman
Colossal mystery novel mixes historical elements, truth, and fiction.
Book Review | ‘Piranesi’ by Susanna Clarke
The novel is inspired by the life of an 18th-century Italian artist and architect.
Book Review | ‘Blood Memory: The Tragic Decline and Improbable Resurrection of the American Buffalo’ by Dayton Duncan and Ken Burns
PBS documentary provides the seeds for the story of the buffalo.
