Book Reviews

A little before midnight on the last night of his life Timothy Marr, a linen draper of Radcliffe Highway, set about tidying up the shop, helped by the shop-boy James [...]

Every once in a while, when I'm in the basement and can see the foundations of our two-flat, or rummage in a closet and notice a crack in the plaster [...]

Chad Harbach's intention in "The Art of Fielding" seems to be to subvert the traditional sports story — boy of great talent hones his craft, reaches heights, stumbles but learns [...]

When she and her husband Joseph were murdered on an isolated stretch of beach, Celice's body fell onto the sand, upending a dune beetle and trapping him in the folds [...]

Reading the last line of Alan Bennett's "The Uncommon Reader," I laughed out loud. I can't guarantee you will, but I suspect you will find this short 2007 novel funny [...]

Okay, so I'm a 10-year-old boy at heart. I found the 2010 movie "How to Train Your Dragon," starring Jay Baruchel as the hapless Hiccup, endlessly droll, inventive, touching and [...]

When Reay Tannahill began working on the book that became "Food in History," she was entering virgin territory. No one before her had attempted to chronicle the relationship of humans [...]

I thoroughly enjoyed "Memory Mambo" when I read it in early 1997, shortly after it was published. Fifteen years later, I savored it even more. Achy Obejas is a friend, [...]

Let's talk about book titles, and book covers, and book marketing. For all intents and purposes, S.C. Gwynne's 2010 book "Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the RISE [...]

Lisbeth Salander is fascinating. Thin, short and socially stunted, she is a victim of abuse, domestic and institutional. Yet, she is even more a survivor — one with extraordinary skills [...]