Category: Book Reviews

September 30, 2025

Exit by Belinda Bauer (** of 4)

Felix Pink, an aging widower, fills his time by assisting dying patients with their planned suicides, sticking just barely to the right side of British...

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August 20, 2025

Melting Pot by Rachel Cockerell *** (of 4)

Really three distinct books in one cover. Each book covers the biographies of relatives of the author. The first, and longest of the three, describes...

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August 20, 2025

I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong ** (of 4)

Ed Yong has an innate ability to take exceptionally interesting topics and drill into them so deeply and with such enthusiasm and lack of direction...

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August 20, 2025

Malice by Keigo Higashino *** (of 4)

Keigo Higashino is Japan's most decorated mystery writer, and this book, Malice, the first in a series, catapulted him to fame. Unlike nearly any other...

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July 30, 2025

The Slip by Lucas Schaefer **** (of 4)

Nathaniel Rothstein, a high schooler in Newton, Massachusetts, beats up a student even dorkier than himself. His mother, beside herself, ships him off for the...

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July 30, 2025

Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities by Bettany Hughes *** (of 4)

Istanbul, the city, sits at the junction of Europe and Asia, literally and metaphorically. Istanbul, the book, moved my perception of history eastward, away from...

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June 17, 2025

The Swimmers by Julie Otsuka *** (of 4)

An expertly crafted introduction to the people that swim laps with the author. Lap swimmers, she makes clear, forego daylight and nature in exchange for...

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June 17, 2025

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys **** (of 4)

There is no shortage of books describing the horrors of war, which makes this novel of World War II refugees so remarkable for its riveting...

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June 2, 2025

The Lock-Up by John Banville ** (of 4)

The remarkably prolific Irish writer, John Banville, gives his take on Jews in Ireland soon after the end of WW II. Rosa Jacobs is a...

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June 2, 2025

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid (***) of 4

Jamaica Kincaid's second book (1988) expands the vision of a theoretical tourist vacationing in Antigua. The tourist soaks up deliciously sunny skies, gazes at unbelievably...

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