Books: Literature and Fiction
Currently listing articles 1737-1701:
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Book Review: Certain Girls by Jennifer Weiner— This is a book about life and living. Parts are laugh out loud hysterically funny and parts will just make you cry.
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Book Review: Death Walked In (A Death On Demand Mystery) by Carolyn Hart— Annie and Max Darling track down a killer close to their new home.
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Book Review: My Life As A Fake by Peter Carey — A poet, an invention of an Australian bicycle repair-man in Malaya, writes blissfully. The problem is he does not exist.
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Book Review: The Body in the Gallery - A Faith Fairchild Mystery by Katherine Hall Page— Faith must figure out the identity of the woman who died in a fish tank, but can she do it before the killer finds her?
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Book Review: Cotillion by Georgette Heyer— Contains all those elements which are essential for good dramatic romance.
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Book Review: Binu And The Great Wall by Su Tong— A beautiful and magical story cut with the sharp taste of reality; a perfect myth.
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Interview with Karen Harrington, Author of Janeology— Harrington's novel explores a controversial issue: what prompts a mother to kill her own child?
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Interview: Author Kate Jacobs of Comfort Food, The Friday Night Knitting Club— The author uses metaphor to examine female friendships and family dynamics.
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Theater Review (NYC): Henry James's The Aspern Papers, Adapted by Martin Zuckerman— Henry James' suspenseful tale of duplicity, set in a backwater of Venice, comes luridly to life on stage.
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Book Review: You Don't Love Me Yet by Jonathan Lethem— Jonathan Lethem presents another indictment of consumer culture in his latest novel.
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Book Review: The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga— Aravind Adiga paints a picture of India as a nearly feudal society disguised as a democracy.
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Book Review: Anybody Any Minute by Julie Mars— A novel full of humour, introspection, and powerful characterisation.
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Book Review: East Of Suez by Howard Engel— With "East Of Suez," Howard Engel has created another wonderful story featuring the self-deprecating and intelligent Benny Cooperman.
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Book Review: Double Vision by Pat Barker— A tender, surprising novel where strong emotions are traded.
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Book Review: Tales from Blue Springs - The Hatchet Woman by R. Garth— A strange novella characterized by bizarre events and terrible writing.
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Interview with Tony Robles, Author of Children's Book Joey Gonzalez, Great American— Robles' children's book challenges the concept of "affirmative action."
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Book Review: Tremolo - Cry of the Loon by Aaron Paul Lazar— Lazar's book cuts through genre distinctions to the heart of what matters in life.
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Book Review: After Dark by Haruki Murakami— As a kind of throat-clearing between bigger tales, the enigmatic After Dark is almost more of a tone poem than a fully fleshed-out novel.
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Interview with R. Leigh, Author of The Winds of Asharra — "I ended up with...the positive, mystical, fantasy and philosophical elements and attempted to create my own literary delicacy that included all of these ingredients."
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Book Review: Our Story Begins by Tobias Wolff— Tobias Wolff writes so well, you won't notice that he is breaking all the rules of storytelling
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Book Review: Black Magic Woman by Justin Gustainis— Black Magic Woman marks the beginning of a new exciting series of supernatural thrillers, featuring kick-ass investigator Quincey Morris.
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Book Review: Angel in a Foreign City by Moti Shapira— A strong, if not perfect, thriller about a kidnapping in Mexico City written by an Israeli intelligence expert.
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Book Review: The Red Wolf Conspiracy by Robert V. S. Redick— "The Red Wolf Conspiracy" takes its readers on a wonderful voyage of adventure that they won't regret booking passage on.
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Book Review: Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith— Every word seems perfectly placed, meticulously considered for it's brevity and weight, and yet you never feel overawed or confounded.
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Interview with Lee Denning, Author of Monkey Trap— Lee Denning is the pen name for father-daughter writing team, authors of "Monkey Trap."
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Book Review: Knockemstiff by Donald Ray Pollock— A collection of short stories on losers that is written the way a loser would....
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Book Review - Jason Schindler's The Poem I Turn To: Actors and Directors Present Poetry that Inspires Them— This book will help us understand poetry's fundamental vitality and its capacity for inspiration.
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Book Review: Shanghai Girl by Vivian Yang— Yang transports the living onto the page in a way that is sure to make any writer jealous and any reader sit up and take
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Book Review: The Hakawati by Rabih Alameddine— A wonderful story told by a masterful storyteller.
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Book Review: Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter by Mario Vargas Llosa— Aunt Julia And The Scriptwriter is a surreal novel that blurs distinctions between reality and fiction, fact and invention.
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Book Review: Last Last Chance by Fiona Maazel— The struggles of drug addiction and the fear of impending plague make for a great debut novel.
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Book Review: Manic by Terri Cheney— A riveting account of a woman's struggle with bipolar disorder.
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The Great Book Adventure: Walden - Part Two— "Simplify! Simplify!" Is more complex than you think.
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Interview with Justin Gustainis, Author of Black Magic Woman
— An exciting new paranormal series featuring supernatural investigator Quincey Morris.
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Interview with Hill Kemp, Author of Capitol Offense and Lucky Penny— Author Hill Kemp and his young granddaughter team up to write a short novel, Lucky Penny.
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Book Review: Armageddon In Retrospect by Kurt Vonnegut— A review of Kurt Vonnegut's most recently published work, released posthumously by his son Mark Vonnegut.
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Book Review: New York Echoes - Short Stories by Warren Adler— The beauty and disappointments of relationships are richly captured on each page of these short stories.
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