The Black Sheep Dances

Years ago I was obsessed with more general titles of mass fiction, particularly crime and detective novels. I didn't realize there was ...

Originally published in the New York Journal of Books, September 14, 2015.   Releases September 15, 2015. Super Better: A Revoluti...

Originally posted in the New York Journal of Books, September 10, 2015 This is Your Life  was a popular television show in the 1960s an...

The writing in this is so subtle. While it's a family drama, it reads like a mystery because the author holds her cards to her chest...

This memoir took me awhile to get interested in. Reviewing a memoir is always tough, as you really don't want to appear to say, ...

This is the year of the memoir. Really.  I've never noticed so many.  A few I started to get bored with, as they seemed like a lot o...

His idea, his rules. Sounds like a good kick to start reading this summer.  His website is oliverdelapaz.com. The Oliver De La Paz Sum...

Review by Amy Henry I think everyone has held the “cottage by the sea” dream aloft in our imagination, thinking at times it to be...

A History of Hurricanes in the Greater Caribbean from Columbus to Katrina Hurricanes have the power to fascinate us, as do earthq...

I was so disappointed with this novel. I normally love Europa Edition's World Noir series, and I've read every single one of Wils...

Norah Vincent is trying to recreate the days leading up to Virginia Woolf's suicide, when she put stones in her pockets and waded in...

"Nor is she sentimental. Inside a silver locket she has worn for years, a gift from my father, are the stock photographs of the st...

"...attempts at difference had the opposite effect to the one intended. For they emphasized that, in the midst of this randomness, ...