Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louise Erdrich has composed one of the most compelling and rewarding novels I have read in a very long time. I defy anyone to read the first…

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Long a source of conjecture, the myth or legend of a female pope has endured for centuries. Pope John of England was allegedly Pope Joan, and ascended to the throne…

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Rumaan Alam’s Entitlement is a beguiling exploration of privilege, societal expectations and personal responsibility. The novel delves into the lives of its characters with a keen eye for the intricacies…

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James by Percival Everett is narrated by Jim, the escaped enslaved man who accompanies Huck Finn when the two flee down the Mississippi River in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn…

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In the first few pages of The Friday Afternoon Club, the author drops the names of Jacqueline Bouvier, Admiral John Cain, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, his future aunt Joan Didion…

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Kevin Barry’s The Heart in Winter is a dreamlike novella that delves into the complexities of human life with an unsentimental and merciless gaze. Set against the backdrop of a…

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For the last 30 years, Don Winslow, one of the most interesting and creative American crime writers, has made the purchase of his latest book a very reliable and easy…

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Set in Scotland in the 1840s during the Highland Clearances (when the land-owning gentry decided that it was more profitable to clear their land of tenant farmers and their families…

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This is the first of a projected group of books to be followed by Fire, Earth and Air. The narrator is Vanessa Carvin, a woman fleeing an unknown…

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The opening chapter of this book is a beautifully modulated introduction to the life of philosophy professor and 71-year-old widower Sy Baumgartner. Sy roams the rooms of his brownstone, burning…

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