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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Review by Walter Cummins
"As the story develops, this is clearly the winter of their discontent, as it is for the people around them."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"As the story develops, this is clearly the winter of their discontent, as it is for the people around them."
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The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Europa Review by Walter Cummins This, Miller’s tenth novel, was a finalist for the 2025 Booker Prize and received two major British awards for historical fiction. The story is historical because i…
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January 15, 2026 at 6:00 PM
The Land in Winter by Andrew Miller
Review by Walter Cummins
"As the story develops, this is clearly the winter of their discontent, as it is for the people around them."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"As the story develops, this is clearly the winter of their discontent, as it is for the people around them."
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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken
Review by Walter Cummins
"McCracken is very aware of the possibility. That may be one explanation for the attraction of this book."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"McCracken is very aware of the possibility. That may be one explanation for the attraction of this book."
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A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken
Ecco Review by Walter Cummins When first reading A Long Game, I kept wondering who the book was written for. The title and the author would attract those of us who are writers, writing teachers, w…
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January 15, 2026 at 5:59 PM
A Long Game: Notes on Writing Fiction by Elizabeth McCracken
Review by Walter Cummins
"McCracken is very aware of the possibility. That may be one explanation for the attraction of this book."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"McCracken is very aware of the possibility. That may be one explanation for the attraction of this book."
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When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented Comedy by David Margolick
Review by Walter Cummins
"As a king, Sid Caesar enjoyed a brief reign, then lay deposed for the majority of his life, sentenced to a figurative exile."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"As a king, Sid Caesar enjoyed a brief reign, then lay deposed for the majority of his life, sentenced to a figurative exile."
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When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented Comedy by David Margolick
Schocken Review by Walter Cummins The hardest I’ve ever laughed took place more than fifty years ago. David Margolick’s book brought it all back in full hysterics, the experience of laughing so ve…
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January 15, 2026 at 5:56 PM
When Caesar Was King: How Sid Caesar Reinvented Comedy by David Margolick
Review by Walter Cummins
"As a king, Sid Caesar enjoyed a brief reign, then lay deposed for the majority of his life, sentenced to a figurative exile."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"As a king, Sid Caesar enjoyed a brief reign, then lay deposed for the majority of his life, sentenced to a figurative exile."
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I Could Be Famous: Stories by Sydney Rende
Review by Brian Tanguay
Rende has a knack for conveying ribald humor. She writes her characters into uncomfortable and terribly awkward situations.
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Review by Brian Tanguay
Rende has a knack for conveying ribald humor. She writes her characters into uncomfortable and terribly awkward situations.
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I Could Be Famous: Stories by Sydney Rende
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay The epigraph to Sydney Rende’s debut collection of short stories is a quote from Sheila Heti’s novel, How Should A Person Be? “How should a person be? I sometime…
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January 6, 2026 at 5:48 PM
I Could Be Famous: Stories by Sydney Rende
Review by Brian Tanguay
Rende has a knack for conveying ribald humor. She writes her characters into uncomfortable and terribly awkward situations.
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Review by Brian Tanguay
Rende has a knack for conveying ribald humor. She writes her characters into uncomfortable and terribly awkward situations.
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What Is Free Speech? The History Of A Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala
Review by Brian Tanguay
"Dabhoiwala asserts that the incentives of private media ownership are never aligned with the public good."
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Review by Brian Tanguay
"Dabhoiwala asserts that the incentives of private media ownership are never aligned with the public good."
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What Is Free Speech? The History Of A Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala
Belknap-Harvard University Review by Brian Tanguay I confess to not having given much thought to the historical origins of free speech before reading Fara Dabhoiwala’s marvelous history, What Is F…
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December 30, 2025 at 7:23 PM
What Is Free Speech? The History Of A Dangerous Idea by Fara Dabhoiwala
Review by Brian Tanguay
"Dabhoiwala asserts that the incentives of private media ownership are never aligned with the public good."
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Review by Brian Tanguay
"Dabhoiwala asserts that the incentives of private media ownership are never aligned with the public good."
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I Found Myself… The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz
Review by David Starkey
"The impossible happens matter-of-factly, mingling with the mundane."
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Review by David Starkey
"The impossible happens matter-of-factly, mingling with the mundane."
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I Found Myself… The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz
New Directions Review by David Starkey On October 15, 1994, Naguib Mahfouz, the only Egyptian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, was on his daily walk in Cairo. “Mahfouz’s regimen was famous…
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December 30, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I Found Myself… The Last Dreams by Naguib Mahfouz
Review by David Starkey
"The impossible happens matter-of-factly, mingling with the mundane."
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Review by David Starkey
"The impossible happens matter-of-factly, mingling with the mundane."
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Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run by Peter Ames Carlin
Review by David Starkey
"The result was an album that rightly finds its place at or near the top of just about any Greatest Albums of All Time list."
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Review by David Starkey
"The result was an album that rightly finds its place at or near the top of just about any Greatest Albums of All Time list."
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Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run by Peter Ames Carlin
Doubleday Review by David Starkey 2025 was the year of the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me from Nowhere, but it was also the 50th anniversary of Springsteen’s first great album: Born to Run. W…
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December 30, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run by Peter Ames Carlin
Review by David Starkey
"The result was an album that rightly finds its place at or near the top of just about any Greatest Albums of All Time list."
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Review by David Starkey
"The result was an album that rightly finds its place at or near the top of just about any Greatest Albums of All Time list."
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins by Sonny Rollins, Edited by Sam V.H. Reese
Review by Walter Cummins
"He shares a belief in the inseparability of spirituality and music with John Coltrane..."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"He shares a belief in the inseparability of spirituality and music with John Coltrane..."
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The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins by Sonny Rollins, Edited by Sam V.H. Reese
New York Review Review by Walter Cummins I’ve been listening to Sonny Rollins’ saxophone for decades, including one live performance with bad acoustics that he still managed to overcome, and I kee…
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December 30, 2025 at 12:18 AM
The Notebooks of Sonny Rollins by Sonny Rollins, Edited by Sam V.H. Reese
Review by Walter Cummins
"He shares a belief in the inseparability of spirituality and music with John Coltrane..."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"He shares a belief in the inseparability of spirituality and music with John Coltrane..."
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A Desert Between Two Seas by A. Muia
Review by Paul Willis
"It is the original sin of the stories that works its effects through generations for more than a century."
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Review by Paul Willis
"It is the original sin of the stories that works its effects through generations for more than a century."
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A Desert Between Two Seas by A. Muia
Georgia Review by Paul Willis A. Muia’s richly entangled grouping of fourteen short stories, A Desert Between Two Seas, explores the afterlife of the Spanish missions in Baja California. Wh…
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December 22, 2025 at 4:44 PM
A Desert Between Two Seas by A. Muia
Review by Paul Willis
"It is the original sin of the stories that works its effects through generations for more than a century."
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Review by Paul Willis
"It is the original sin of the stories that works its effects through generations for more than a century."
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The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog
Review by George Yatchisin
"As a visionary it’s his job to show us the big T Truth, damn the nigglingly fact-checkers."
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Review by George Yatchisin
"As a visionary it’s his job to show us the big T Truth, damn the nigglingly fact-checkers."
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The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog
Penguin Review by George Yatchisin Who better than Werner Herzog, the Bavarian mad genius, to take us on a heady time-travelling exploration on what truth might mean/be/permit? The Future of…
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December 22, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The Future of Truth by Werner Herzog
Review by George Yatchisin
"As a visionary it’s his job to show us the big T Truth, damn the nigglingly fact-checkers."
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Review by George Yatchisin
"As a visionary it’s his job to show us the big T Truth, damn the nigglingly fact-checkers."
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Hitler and My Mother-in-Law by Terese Svoboda
Review by Walter Cummins
"One that dominates is knowing the truth of what actually happened and what’s emerged from rumor, assumption, and claims by the subject."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"One that dominates is knowing the truth of what actually happened and what’s emerged from rumor, assumption, and claims by the subject."
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Hitler and My Mother-in-Law by Terese Svoboda
OR Books Review by Walter Cummins Terese Svoboda could have begun the title of her latest book with a number of other famous or familiar names—Goebbels, Goering, Martha Gellhorn, H.V. Kaltenborn, …
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December 18, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Hitler and My Mother-in-Law by Terese Svoboda
Review by Walter Cummins
"One that dominates is knowing the truth of what actually happened and what’s emerged from rumor, assumption, and claims by the subject."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"One that dominates is knowing the truth of what actually happened and what’s emerged from rumor, assumption, and claims by the subject."
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton
Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
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Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton
Stanford Review by Walter Cummins I wish Impasse had been written when my wife was still alive. The book would have provided so much information and so many ideas to illuminate our ongoing discuss…
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December 18, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress by Roy Scranton
Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
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Review by Walter Cummins
Roy Scranton declares that the big moral question for humanity is “how to live in a fragmenting, increasingly incomprehensible world of accelerating catastrophe.”
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Repetition: A Novel by Vigdis Hjorth, Translated by Charlotte Barslund
Review By Brian Tanguay
"Hjorth gives readers moments which are deep, complex, and infinite."
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Review By Brian Tanguay
"Hjorth gives readers moments which are deep, complex, and infinite."
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Repetition: A Novel by Vigdis Hjorth, Translated by Charlotte Barslund
Verso Review by Brian Tanguay It’s late November in Norway and the days are cold and short. A woman and her dog occupy a small cabin in a remote, forested area. The woman, whose name we never lear…
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December 11, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Repetition: A Novel by Vigdis Hjorth, Translated by Charlotte Barslund
Review By Brian Tanguay
"Hjorth gives readers moments which are deep, complex, and infinite."
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Review By Brian Tanguay
"Hjorth gives readers moments which are deep, complex, and infinite."
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A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Review by Walter Cummins
"Characters make mistakes with disorienting consequences, but while inconvenienced, nobody gets seriously hurt."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"Characters make mistakes with disorienting consequences, but while inconvenienced, nobody gets seriously hurt."
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A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Knopf Review by Walter Cummins A Guardian and a Thief is chaotic novel, filled with surprising turns and ironic shifts, with characters whose plans constantly backfire, causing accidental but ofte…
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December 11, 2025 at 12:55 AM
A Guardian and a Thief by Megha Majumdar
Review by Walter Cummins
"Characters make mistakes with disorienting consequences, but while inconvenienced, nobody gets seriously hurt."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"Characters make mistakes with disorienting consequences, but while inconvenienced, nobody gets seriously hurt."
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10 Best Books of 2025
The Editors
"As always when creating year-end lists, we could have easily generated another one that included dozens of additional outstanding books."
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The Editors
"As always when creating year-end lists, we could have easily generated another one that included dozens of additional outstanding books."
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10 Best Books of 2025
The following list was decided after consultation between California Review of Books co-editors David Starkey and Brian Tanguay and the journal’s most frequent reviewers, Walter Cummins and …
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December 7, 2025 at 1:44 AM
10 Best Books of 2025
The Editors
"As always when creating year-end lists, we could have easily generated another one that included dozens of additional outstanding books."
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The Editors
"As always when creating year-end lists, we could have easily generated another one that included dozens of additional outstanding books."
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Savings And Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank by Justene Hill Edwards
Review by Brian Tanguay
"If the historian happens to be a skilled writer and an adept storyteller, the end product is often revelatory."
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Review by Brian Tanguay
"If the historian happens to be a skilled writer and an adept storyteller, the end product is often revelatory."
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Savings And Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank by Justene Hill Edwards
W. W. Norton & Company Review by Brian Tanguay The failure of banks and savings and loan institutions has a long history in the United States. Most people know something about the bank runs th…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Savings And Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank by Justene Hill Edwards
Review by Brian Tanguay
"If the historian happens to be a skilled writer and an adept storyteller, the end product is often revelatory."
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Review by Brian Tanguay
"If the historian happens to be a skilled writer and an adept storyteller, the end product is often revelatory."
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The Best Poetry Books of 2025
Reviews by David Starkey
"As always, my reviews are intentionally short. Ideally, each one contains just enough information–an appreciative observation, say, or a couple of striking quotations..."
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Reviews by David Starkey
"As always, my reviews are intentionally short. Ideally, each one contains just enough information–an appreciative observation, say, or a couple of striking quotations..."
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The Best Poetry Books of 2025
Reviews by David Starkey As I have every year since 2014, in 2025 I set aside a couple of months to peruse the year’s books of poetry–at least those books I had on hand. In the past, I…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:13 PM
The Best Poetry Books of 2025
Reviews by David Starkey
"As always, my reviews are intentionally short. Ideally, each one contains just enough information–an appreciative observation, say, or a couple of striking quotations..."
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Reviews by David Starkey
"As always, my reviews are intentionally short. Ideally, each one contains just enough information–an appreciative observation, say, or a couple of striking quotations..."
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Review by Walter Cummins
"The title characters are torn by the emptiness of depressing loneliness, but a version of loneliness haunts every major character."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"The title characters are torn by the emptiness of depressing loneliness, but a version of loneliness haunts every major character."
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The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Hogarth Review by Walter Cummins When I read The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny I hadn’t known Kiran Desai had devoted twenty years to creating the novel, but I suspected a very long devotion to it…
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December 2, 2025 at 9:09 PM
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai
Review by Walter Cummins
"The title characters are torn by the emptiness of depressing loneliness, but a version of loneliness haunts every major character."
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Review by Walter Cummins
"The title characters are torn by the emptiness of depressing loneliness, but a version of loneliness haunts every major character."
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“A Wooded Shore” by Thomas McGuane
Review by David Starkey
“...McGuane is more sympathetic to his characters, and he loves describing the details of whatever location they find themselves in, so the prose feels fuller, richer, more engaged.”
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Review by David Starkey
“...McGuane is more sympathetic to his characters, and he loves describing the details of whatever location they find themselves in, so the prose feels fuller, richer, more engaged.”
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A Wooded Shore by Thomas McGuane
Knopf Review by David Starkey The stories in A Wooded Shore are mostly set in Trump country, but Trump, and politics, are conspicuously absent. We do meet, in “Wide Spot,” a Montana politician, th…
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October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
“A Wooded Shore” by Thomas McGuane
Review by David Starkey
“...McGuane is more sympathetic to his characters, and he loves describing the details of whatever location they find themselves in, so the prose feels fuller, richer, more engaged.”
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Review by David Starkey
“...McGuane is more sympathetic to his characters, and he loves describing the details of whatever location they find themselves in, so the prose feels fuller, richer, more engaged.”
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“1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – And How It Shattered a Nation” by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Review by Mark Mansour
“...“1929” delivers a highly readable experience—a history that resonates far beyond its era.”
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Review by Mark Mansour
“...“1929” delivers a highly readable experience—a history that resonates far beyond its era.”
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1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – And How It Shattered a Nation – by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Viking Review by Mark Mansour Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “1929” is a compelling and vivid chronicle of the most notorious financial crash in history, skillfully blending drama and meticulously researche…
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October 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
“1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – And How It Shattered a Nation” by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Review by Mark Mansour
“...“1929” delivers a highly readable experience—a history that resonates far beyond its era.”
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Review by Mark Mansour
“...“1929” delivers a highly readable experience—a history that resonates far beyond its era.”
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“Shadow Ticket” by Thomas Pynchon
Review by Walter Cummins
“Like the sentences, the novel offers an intense rhythm of revelation that is an end in itself, more important than plot.”
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Review by Walter Cummins
“Like the sentences, the novel offers an intense rhythm of revelation that is an end in itself, more important than plot.”
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Shadow Ticket by Thomas Pynchon
Penguin Review by Walter Cummins Shadow Ticket, Thomas Pynchon’s latest novel, published sixty-two years after his first, V, the author having reached age eighty-eight, replicates a number of them…
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October 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
“Shadow Ticket” by Thomas Pynchon
Review by Walter Cummins
“Like the sentences, the novel offers an intense rhythm of revelation that is an end in itself, more important than plot.”
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Review by Walter Cummins
“Like the sentences, the novel offers an intense rhythm of revelation that is an end in itself, more important than plot.”
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“The Hounding” by Xenobe Purvis
Review by George Yatchisin
“There’s a general air of seduction and the power of the unanswerable…”
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Review by George Yatchisin
“There’s a general air of seduction and the power of the unanswerable…”
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The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis
Holt Review by George Yatchisin Xenobe Purvis can write spooky, but then there are all sorts of haunts, aren’t there? Her debut novel The Hounding, set during the 18th-century in Little Nettlebed …
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October 25, 2025 at 4:57 PM
“The Hounding” by Xenobe Purvis
Review by George Yatchisin
“There’s a general air of seduction and the power of the unanswerable…”
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Review by George Yatchisin
“There’s a general air of seduction and the power of the unanswerable…”
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“A Case of Life and Limb: The Trials of Gabriel Ward” by Sally Smith
Review by Brian Tanguay
“In the second installment of Sally Smith’s captivating series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Sir Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, is once again confronted with a grisly crime…”
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Review by Brian Tanguay
“In the second installment of Sally Smith’s captivating series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Sir Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, is once again confronted with a grisly crime…”
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A Case of Life and Limb: The Trials of Gabriel Ward by Sally Smith
Bloomsbury Review by Brian Tanguay In the second installment of Sally Smith’s captivating series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Sir Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, is once again confronted with a gris…
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October 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“A Case of Life and Limb: The Trials of Gabriel Ward” by Sally Smith
Review by Brian Tanguay
“In the second installment of Sally Smith’s captivating series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Sir Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, is once again confronted with a grisly crime…”
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Review by Brian Tanguay
“In the second installment of Sally Smith’s captivating series, The Trials of Gabriel Ward, Sir Gabriel Ward, King’s Counsel, is once again confronted with a grisly crime…”
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“Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia” by Brian Barth
Review by Brian Tanguay
“...he alters the nature of the conversation.”
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Review by Brian Tanguay
“...he alters the nature of the conversation.”
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Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia by Brian Barth
Astra House Review by Brian Tanguay In June 2024, the United States Supreme Court ruled that cities can punish unhoused people for sleeping in public, even if they have nowhere else to go. Justice…
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October 8, 2025 at 12:06 AM
“Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia” by Brian Barth
Review by Brian Tanguay
“...he alters the nature of the conversation.”
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Review by Brian Tanguay
“...he alters the nature of the conversation.”
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“Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity” by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Review by Walter Cummins
"Acemoglu and Johnson present plans to enable the benefits of new technologies to spread to all workers and improve their lives"
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Review by Walter Cummins
"Acemoglu and Johnson present plans to enable the benefits of new technologies to spread to all workers and improve their lives"
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Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
PublicAffairs Review by Walter Cummins It’s a common assumption that the technological inventions and innovations of recent centuries have increased wealth and living standards throughout the worl…
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October 8, 2025 at 12:03 AM
“Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity” by Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson
Review by Walter Cummins
"Acemoglu and Johnson present plans to enable the benefits of new technologies to spread to all workers and improve their lives"
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Review by Walter Cummins
"Acemoglu and Johnson present plans to enable the benefits of new technologies to spread to all workers and improve their lives"
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