Booking Around

Boy meets girl; beautiful, blonde, accomplished, from a semi-famous family. Girl meets boy; handsome, southern charm, writer’s aspirations...

In Ann Patchett’s lovely Bel Canto , the reader travels to a fictional South American country and bears witness to an odd tale of the qu...

I try to keep a running list of titles in order to have something to refer to when I am looking for a good read. I’m not very diligent abo...

A few summers ago, I read a novel about a young woman who moves to a farm in the south with her family and is caught off guard by the grue...

In his recent novel, Lost Memory of Skin , Russell Banks tackles three separate subjects: the criminality of sex offenders, morbid obesity...

The first story of Elissa Schappell’s collection Blueprints for Building Better Girls explodes off the pages. The vulnerability, sadness, c...

When I read a review of Leah Hager Cohen’s novel The Grief of Others , I was curious how it would compare to Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom. ¬Th...