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Book Review: But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer
Geoff Dyer's fact-based but impressionistic fictional essays about great jazz musicians are a form of literary jazz.
Read More »Book Review: Tomorrow! by Philip Wylie
Reissued 1954 novel immerses reader in the feel of the Cold War era.
Read More »Book Review: Forest Of The Pygmies by Isabel Allende
Without rubbing a reader's face in it Isabel Allende's stories teach valuable lessons about tolerance and understanding.
Read More »Book Review: Bang the Drum Slowly by Mark Harris
Fifty year old baseball novel still a great read.
Read More »Book Review City Of The Beasts by Isabel Allende
Opens your eyes to the fact that the world is quite a bit different from what we see every day.
Read More »Book Review: In His Majesty’s Service (Omnibus Edition) by Naomi Novik
The Napoleonic Wars, and historical fiction, will never be the same again.
Read More »Book Review: Invisible by Paul Auster
Paul Auster's writing skills draw in and hold readers of his 15th novel.
Read More »Book Review: The Lacuna By Barbara Kingsolver
You may never look at a history book or a newspaper story in quite the same way again.
Read More »Book Review: The Secret History of Science Fiction edited by James Patrick Kelly and John Kessel
Interesting premise gives rise to anthology challenging distinctions between mainstream and genre fiction.
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