The Guns at Last Light: The War in Western Europe, 1944 – 1945 (Liberation Trilogy) by Rick Atkinson (Henry Holt)
This magisterial history was written in the service of a democratic vision.
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Interview: Author James Claffey
The Carpinteria resident comes out with Blood a Cold Blue, a collection of short fiction stories.
Review: Facing the Wave: A Journey in the Wake of the Tsunami
Gretel Ehrlich has taken the haibun and made it her own in this haunting account of the tsunami that struck Japan on March 11, 2011.
Review: Tenth of December
Oddly endearing characters inhabit George Saunders’ audacious stories.
Review: TransAtlantic
Colum McCann looks at connections across centuries between Ireland and America.
Review: The Woman Upstairs
Claire Messud’s latest novel delves inside the mind of a lost and obsessive grade school teacher.
Review of Elizabeth Strout’s The Burgess Boys
The Pulitzer winner’s latest Maine-based book has its ups and downs.
Review of Janet Malcolm’s Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers
A look at how nonfiction writing can actually become literature.
Review of Philip Larkin’s The Complete Poems
Learning to love the poems, if not the man.
Review of Thomas Lux’s Poetry Collection Child Made of Sand
Humorous poems with creative titles for poets and everyone else.