Category: FICTION

March 22, 2015

The Property by Rutu Modan **** (of 4)

Modan is part of the first generation of Israeli graphic novelists. In The Property, an elderly Israeli grandmother returns to Poland with her granddaughter to...

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March 15, 2015

The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith *** (of 4)

Let’s begin with the fact that I picked up the book after the world discovered that Robert Galbraith was a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling. I can’t...

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February 10, 2015

The Alienist by Caleb Carr ** (of 4)

In the 1890s, Theodore Roosevelt did not yet have presidential ambitions. As a young man he was trying to sweep corruption from the halls of New...

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January 18, 2015

The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan ** (of 4)

In the central third of this novel, a New Zealand prisoner of World War II, enslaved by the Japanese endures countless, excruciatingly detailed horrors in...

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December 14, 2014

Warburg in Rome by James Carroll *** (of 4)

I learned a lot about the plight of European Jews in the years 1944 to 1947. American Jews knew of the death camps, but widespread...

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November 26, 2014

The UnAmericans by Molly Antopol **** (of 4)

Eight short stories about young and old Jews in America and in Israel and every character elicits your sympathy. Antopol starts her stories in the...

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October 23, 2014

The Beautiful Mystery by Louise Penny **** (of 4)

Sixteen monks live in an isolated Canadian monastery dedicated to Pure Gregorian Chant, God, and the obscure Saint Gilbert. Until there are fifteen monks because the...

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October 7, 2014

The Good Lord Bird by James McBride *** (of 4)

Of course I’ve heard of John Brown, the abolitionist, who tried to start an insurrection and free the slaves by himself. But, truth is, that...

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September 26, 2014

The Casual Vacancy by J.K. Rowling *** (of 4)

The plot entails a battle in city council, in Britain called Parish Council, over whether the poorer neighborhood of Yarvil should be cut free from...

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September 9, 2014