Books Reviewed Spring 2018 James Wright: A Life in Poetry by Jonathan Blunk Reviewed by Mark Jarman Spring 2018 Debriefing: Collected Stories, ed. by Benjamin Taylor by Susan Sontag Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Drinks With Dead Poets: A Season of Poe, Whitman, Byron, and the Brontës by Glyn Maxwell Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Future Home of the Living God by Louise Erdrich Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Mokusei! A Love Story by Cees Nooteboom Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls Reviewed by Dean Flower Spring 2018 Like a Fading Shadow by Antonio Muñoz Molina Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Grant by Ron Chernow Reviewed by Brooke Allen Spring 2018 Mouths Don’t Speak by Katia D. Ulysse Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 The Aeneid, translated by David Ferry by Virgil Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Spring 2018 Bitterroot: The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis by Patricia Tyson Stroud Reviewed by Susan Balée Spring 2018 The Red-Haired Woman by Orhan Pamuk Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Freya by Anthony Quinn Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Go, Went, Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck Reviewed by Robert McDowell Spring 2018 Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir Reviewed by Robert McDowell Winter 2018 Winter by Ali Smith Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2018 semiautomatic by Evie Shockley Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Winter 2018 Doting by Henry Green Reviewed by Will Harrison Winter 2018 Elmet by Fiona Mozley Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2018 4 3 2 1 by Paul Auster Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2018 Silencer by Marcus Wicker Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Winter 2018 Jane Austen, the Secret Radical by Helena Kelly Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Winter 2018 The Making of Jane Austen by Devoney Looser Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Winter 2018 Teenage Writings, ed. by Kathryn Sutherland and Freya Johnston by Jane Austen Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Winter 2018 The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water by Cameron Barnett Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Winter 2018 Why Write? Collected Nonfiction 1960-2013 by Philip Roth Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Winter 2018 Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study by Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg Reviewed by David Mason Winter 2018 The Genius of Jane Austen: Her Love of Theatre and Why She Works in Hollywood by Paula Byrne Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Winter 2018 Mrs. Osmond by John Banville Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2018 The Golden House by Salman Rushdie Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2018 Goethe: Life as a Work of Art, trans. by David Dollenmayer by Rüdiger Safranski Reviewed by Bruce Whiteman Winter 2018 Jane Austen’s Names: Riddles, Persons, Places by Margaret Doody Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Winter 2018 History of Wolves by Emily Fridlund Reviewed by Tom Wilhelmus Winter 2018 Jane Austen: The Banker’s Sister by E. J. Clery Reviewed by Alexandra Mullen Winter 2018 Nothing by Henry Green Reviewed by Will Harrison Autumn 2017 Scribbled in the Dark by Charles Simic Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Autumn 2017 The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by Margaret Willes Reviewed by Brooke Allen Autumn 2017 Lowly by Alan Felsenthal Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Autumn 2017 Simulacra by Airea D. Matthews Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Autumn 2017 Of Mongrelitude by Julian Talamantez Brolaski Reviewed by Robert Archambeau Autumn 2017 On Empson by Michael Wood Reviewed by William H. Pritchard Autumn 2017 Grief Cottage by Gail Godwin Reviewed by Susan Balée Autumn 2017 Cockfosters by Helen Simpson Reviewed by Susan Balée Autumn 2017 The Unit by Ninni Holmqvist Reviewed by Susan Balée Autumn 2017 Anything Is Possible by Elizabeth Strout Reviewed by Susan Balée Autumn 2017 The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry Reviewed by Susan Balée Autumn 2017 The Accomplished Guest by Ann Beattie Reviewed by Susan Balée Autumn 2017 The Girl of the Lake by Bill Roorbach Reviewed by Susan Balée Autumn 2017 Sisters by Lily Tuck Reviewed by Susan Balée ← Older articles Newer articles →