Category: Book Reviews

January 11, 2024

Eastbound by Maylis De Kerangal *** (of 4)

A group of Russian men have just been conscripted into the Army. They are on the trans-Siberian railroad crossing more than 8 time zones toward...

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January 2, 2024

Afterlives by Abdulrazak Gurnah **** (of 4)

Gurnah won the 2022 Nobel Prize for literature and it is evident why in Afterlives, a vision of life on the ground in East Africa...

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December 11, 2023

A Line in the Sand by Kevin Powers ** (of 4)

A recently executed body shows up on a beach in Norfolk, Virginia, home to military bases and private military contractors. As the police and a...

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December 11, 2023

Cheap Land Colorado by Tim Conover ** (of 4)

There is a part of the dry flatlands of Colorado called the San Luis Valley where five acres of land can be purchased for a...

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November 23, 2023

Birnham Wood by Eleanor Catton *** (of 4)

The premise is simple enough. A guerilla environmental group in New Zealand, calling itself Birnham Wood, illegally plants gardens on vacant properties. As you would...

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November 23, 2023

Goodbye, Eastern Europe *** (of 4)

It is an enormous undertaking to try and explain the people, cultures, and kaleidoscopic national identities of a region as large as Eastern Europe. Jacob...

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November 23, 2023

The Pigeon Tunnel by John LeCarre *** (of 4)

Nearing the end of a long and terrifically prodigious career as a writer, Le Carre assembled here the true events that undergird his novels. He...

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October 27, 2023

Homegrown by Jeffrey Toobin ** (of 4)

Toobin can be a captivating writer; he is one of the greats at uncovering the backstories of a variety of criminals and noteworthy trials: OJ...

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October 27, 2023

All the Sinners Bleed *** (of 4)

Nobody captures underlying racial tension in the contemporary south, wrapped in a crime thriller, as well as S.A. Cosby. His leads–this is Cosby’s fourth in...

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October 27, 2023

The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman *** (of 4)

In this fourth installation of the Thursday Murder Club, Richard Osman’s four 80-year-old residents (plus or minus, but who can keep track at that age...

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