Category: Book Reviews

October 20, 2016

Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting by Ian Frazier *** (of 4)

Many of the essays, interviews, and reports collected here were first published in the New Yorker, but not one of them is less interesting reading a...

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September 28, 2016

The Lantern Bearers by Rosemary Sutcliff ** (of 4)

It is the middle of the fifth century, though you would have to know that on your own, as there is no indication in the...

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September 25, 2016

Children of the Arbat *** (of 4) by Anatoli Rybakov

The Arbat is a Moscow neighborhood; its children are the teens and twenty-somethings caught up in Stalin’s increasingly repressive communism of the 1930s. These youth...

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August 30, 2016

Kosher USA by Roger Horowitz *** (of 4)

How does a food receive kosher approval? For some items, like the prohibition of pork, the Torah is comparatively clear. But what about a more...

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August 18, 2016

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi *** (of 5)

Gyasi uses her own experience as a Ghanaian American to create an original tale of history. We are asked to follow the descendants of one...

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August 18, 2016

The Long Way Home by Louise Penny *** (of 4)

Maybe the tenth in the series of mysteries for Chief Detective of the Quebec Surete, Armand Gamache. Having recently retired to Three Pines, now former...

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August 1, 2016

The Lazarus Project by Aleksander Hemon *** (of 5)

In 1908 a Jewish immigrant named Lazarus Averbuch knocked on the door of Chicago’s police chief. After handing the Chief Shippy a letter (we never learn...

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July 22, 2016

One of Us by Asne Seierstad **** (of 4)

Even if you do not recall the Oslo terrorist attack in 2011, the opening pages of this book make certain there is no surprise. Anders...

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July 13, 2016

What we Talk about when we Talk about Anne Frank *** (of 4) by Nathan Englander

Eight short stories. All of them sad. Englander pitches his stories to test the limits of love in binding marriages, ageless friendships, families, and neighbors. Two...

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June 23, 2016