To read Richard Russo is to remember why we read fiction—great storytelling, complex character development and a plot that captivates…
Darwin and Ellen’s Picks
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Alexandra Fuller’s family and all their foibles are well known to readers of her earlier memoirs. Don’t Let’s Go to…
The incomparable and under-appreciated Howard Norman has produced another compelling and deeply curious tale. This is a triple love story…
It was a thrilling day for many American women when Sandra Day O’Connor joined her 8 colleagues on the Supreme…
The great landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, worked as a journalist for many years before his long career designing such…
A heart-wrenching, extensively researched book about “The Troubles”, focused on events during the height of Northern Ireland’s violent guerrilla war…
I picked up the galley of this novel (published on June 18) because of the fun title, and the book…
What an original first book posing as a spy novel—and novel it is. It purports to be the journal of…
From the ominous opening line– “They had been smelling smoke for two days.”–we are alerted to what might become of…
Reading this committed, maybe even obsessed, conservationist/animal lover will be “something captivating even intoxicating” as Andrews describes his heightened alertness…