Category: Psychology

March 27, 2022

Intimacies by Katie Kitamura ** (of 4)

You can probably disregard my unenthusiastic review. Intimacies, after all, was loved by everyone else from the NY Times to the National Book Awards. A...

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February 17, 2022

Razorblade Tears by S.A. Crosby **** (of 4)

Ike and Buddy Lee couldn’t be more different or more the same. Ike is Black and barely the survivor of deeply embedded southern racism. Buddy...

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December 7, 2021

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara *** (of 4)

One big difference between true crime and mystery novels is that when true crimes are committed, it’s not unusual for the perpetrator to get away....

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October 31, 2021

Talking to Strangers *** (of 4) by Malcolm Gladwell

Vintage Gladwell as he describes a seemingly ordinary encounter or observation from which any reasonable person would draw an obvious conclusion and then takes a...

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September 7, 2017

The Golem and the Jinni *** (of 4) by Helene Wecker

In the year 1899, in New York City, a golem and a jinni chance upon one another. A golem is a a mythical Jewish monster...

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March 31, 2017

Regeneration by Pat Barker **** (of 4)

Most of the action takes place away from the European trenches of World War I. Instead, Dr. Rivers uses the new field of psychoanalysis to...

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December 9, 2016

Without You There Is No Us by Suki Kim **** (of 4)

Suki Kim spent six months teaching English to the sons of elite North Koreans enrolled at Pyongyang University for Science and Technology (PUST), an evangelical...

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December 1, 2016