Book Reviews

Finally, Tom Cullen comes out and asks Lucy Nichols, “Why would a good-looking girl like you…?” If the 1987 novel Bandits were your run-of-the-mill crime novel, Lucy might be (a) [...]

First of all, a story: In April, 2010, I was in downtown Duluth on a freelance writing assignment, and, by 5 pm or so, I’d finished my interviews and was [...]

Hallie wants Larry Morgan to write a book about her parents Charity and Sid Lang.  After all, he’s a famous novelist, and, for 35 years, Larry and his wife Sally [...]

Henry Morton Robinson’s novel The Cardinal, originally published in 1950, was reissued in January, 1963, in anticipation of the upcoming release of the Otto Preminger movie of the same name. [...]

Maurice, the beat-up but brainy cat, has leapt from the stable loft onto the mouse in the time-honored tradition of predator and prey — only to stop short when the [...]

Surrender, premeditate nothing, want nothing, neither discern nor dissect nor stare, but rather shift, dodge, lose focus, and — slowing down — consider the only material that presents itself, in [...]

There is a beautiful embrace of complexity, a wonderful delight in ambiguity and amazements, to Laurel Thatcher Ulrich’s 2007 book of history, Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History. It is the [...]

Christopher Moore is a writer of joyfully goofy and ribald novels about such things as vampires, demons, San Francisco, a Native-American trickster and the comic aspects of Shakespeare’s tragedies, such [...]

Published in 1970, The City Dwellers by Charles Platt is based on the belief that cities were going to hell in a handbasket. One of Platt’s earliest published fiction books, [...]