All Book Reviews
'On Trails' celebrates the deep history of trails on earthRobert Moor takes a journey on paths that lead through memory and over mountains and into places where the only option is to take the long way around.
'The Huntress' profiles Alicia Patterson 鈥� journalist, adventurer, rebelPatterson鈥檚 career 鈥� as chronicled by her niece,聽Alice Arlen 鈥� straddled the worlds of publishing and politics, and her personal life was a swirl of high society and far-flung travels.
'Landskipping' movingly considers the human love of landscapesAnna Pavord's meditation on 'Painters, Ploughmen and Places' celebrates the enduring power of landscapes on our collective imagination.
'A Torch Against the Night' runs deeper than 'An Ember in the Ashes'This sequel preserves the hyperkinetic energy of 'An Ember in the Ashes' while layering in more thoughtful complexities.
'1966' singles out a moment when musical history was madeThe Summer of Love gets all the press, but Jon Savage argues that the biggest break with the past happened the year before.
'Still Here' follows Russian immigrants struggling to establish identity in NYAs they approach middle age, a group of friends contemplates what has becomes of their lives and dreams of success since arriving in the Big Apple.
'The Perfect Horse' is the perfect World War II rescue storyThe Russians were advancing, and the Third Reich was collapsing, and there was only one way to save Austria's prized Lipizzaner stallions.
'Behold the Dreamers' raises issues of class, immigration, and colorAn African family comes to New York, hoping to live the American dream. Then the financial crisis hits and the story gets much more complex.
'The Terror Years' attempts to explain the post-9/11 worldIn the 15 years since 9/11, New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright has been traveling the world, hoping to shed light on dark topics.
'Anatomy of a Soldier' tells a warrior's story, as seen by 45 inanimate objects聽This unusual first novel was written by Harry Parker, a British Army captain who lost both legs at age 25 after stepping on an IED in Afghanistan in 2009.
'The Art of Rivalry' considers painters as competitorsPulitzer Prize-winning critic Sebastian Smee looks at the ways that rivalry served to mold four pairs of great artists.
'Riverine' is the memoir of a writer who cannot slip free of her pastAngela Palm's intriguing book is filled with sharp analysis of the relationship between place, social status, and ethos.聽
'Somme' puts a human face on a massive military catastropheAcclaimed historian Hugh Sebag-Montefiore studies the whole breadth of the Somme debacle of World War I.
'Learning to Swear in America' features lively characters, exciting astrophysicsKatie Kennedy鈥檚 firecracker novel about culture shock, astrophysics, and maybe the聽end of the world, is a page-turner.聽
'Another Brooklyn' tells of growing up female, black in 1970s BrooklynIn her trademark lyrical prose, Jacqueline Woodson reflects on the dramas and traumas of growing up in pre-gentrification Brooklyn.
'The House at the Edge of Night' makes a dreamy vacation readOn a mystic island south and east of Sicily, a spurned doctor and his family turn their home into a convivial gathering place for locals.
'To the Bright Edge of the World' hauntingly portrays Alaskan wildernessEowyn Ivey's second novel set in Alaska in 1885 follows a married couple into parallel tribulations, as he explores the wilderness and she faces a difficult pregnancy.
'How the Post Office Created America' is a love letter to an institution in perilGallagher argues that far from merely聽existing as an important part of American society, the post office actually shaped American history and聽did much to create the United States that we know today.
'The Underground Railroad' tells a disturbingly real story of slaveryNovelist Colson Whitehead depicts the perversions and horrors of slavery in 19th-century America through the story of the multiple escape attempts of a woman named Cora.
'Lions' is an evocative novel of place, set on the brooding frontierPretty Leigh Ransom and handsome Gordon Walker are in love and planning to head soon to college. But can anyone really leave a town like Lions?
