Category: Book Reviews

June 24, 2026

Notes on a Foreign Country by Suzy Hansen **** (of 4)

In 2007, as a 29-year-old journalist, Hansen won a fellowship to Turkey. Eight years later she published this combination memoir–reports from the Middle East–in depth...

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June 24, 2026

Cursed Daughters by Oyinkan Braithwaite *** (of 4)

Many generations back in rural Nigeria a woman was cursed for her infidelity. The curse doomed all of her female offspring to failure in their...

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June 8, 2026

The Widows of Malabar Hill by Sujata Massey *** (of 4)

Perveen Mistry lives in Bombay, India in the 1920s. She is the city’s first lawyer, but sexist, and racist hierarchies prevent her from entering a...

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June 8, 2026

The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman *** (of 4)

Fifth in the series of investigations by the Thursday Murder Club, a group of four delightfully quirky senior citizens who investigate murders for funsies. This...

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May 22, 2026

Paradise by Adulrazak Gurnah *** (of 4)

In this fourth novel by Nobel Prize recipient Abdulrazak Gurnah, the author tells a coming of age story of Yusuf. It is in the first...

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May 22, 2026

Judgement at Tokyo by Gary Bass **** (of 4)

Not long after the start of the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals, while Douglas MacArthur was Supreme Commander over a conquered Japanese nation, defeated...

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April 30, 2026

Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford *** (of 4)

Genghis Khan gets a bad rap. His negatives have been mostly related by Medieval Europeans who were about as close-minded and backward as any society...

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April 15, 2026

Heaven’s Prisoners by James Lee Burke ****( of 4)

James Lee Burke is a multiple award winning mystery writer and a nominee for a Pulitzer and one of the finest writers I read. Heaven’s...

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April 15, 2026

A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif *** (of 4)

Ali Shingri is serving in Pakistan’s army just before the unexplained plane crash of Dictator Zia Al-Huq in 1988. Shingri’s father committed forced suicide at...

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April 15, 2026

Heartwood, Amity Gaige *** (of 4)

Valerie, a 42-year-old nurse, burnt out by round-the-clock care for dying Covid patients during the height of the epidemic, decides to hike the Appalachian Trail....

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