Book Review
'Beatrice and Virgil,' Yann Martel
Holocaust humor? It’s doomed to turn dark and depressing.
| Wednesday, July 21, 2010
'Kissing the Mask,' William T. Vollmann
At 500 pages, Kissing the Mask is almost an essay by Vollmann’s standards
| Wednesday, July 14, 2010
'The Magicians,' Lev Grossman
A tale of magicians that's no fairy-tale fantasy.
| Wednesday, July 7, 2010
'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest,' Stieg Larsson
After nearly 1,800 pages, the Millennium Trilogy fails to pull off a satisfying conclusion.
| Wednesday, June 30, 2010
'The Long Song,' Andrea Levy
Andrea Levy’s fictional memoir retells the history of slavery in Jamaica.
| Wednesday, June 23, 2010
'Solar,' Ian McEwan
A character study of the mental interior of a narcissist.
| Wednesday, June 16, 2010
'American Voyeur,' Benoit Denizet-Lewis
Go inside the high school hook-up scene and you’ll uncover lots of self-doubt.
| Wednesday, June 9, 2010
'Girl Power: The Nineties Revolution in Music,' Marisa Meltzer
Sometimes Grrrl Power leads a revolution, and sometimes it just thinks it’s revolutionary.
| Wednesday, May 26, 2010
'A Wicked History: Alexander the Great,' by Doug Wilhelm
The gory parts of Scholastic’s history-for-kids series (stabbings! beheadings!) also appeal to adults.
| Wednesday, May 19, 2010
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