Was it an accident, or did someone deliberately gun down the seven-year-old boy waiting in front of his home for the school bus? One thing seems sure: police detective Jake Hines can’t blame this tragedy on SAD (seasonal affective... Read More

“The land, our very lives, are parched and flooded by turns, perched at the bank of the river where the ground keeps crumbling away. And there we balance.“ The author is describing both her childhood and the current life she leads in... Read More

If childhood memoirs praising the pleasures of family, security, and comfort are rare, then rarer still is the memoir that credits those tender memories with inspiring a creative life. With clear-eyed wonderment, Gingher revisits her... Read More

I don’t want you to be alone. Then send me someone. This exchange between Paul and his wife, Diana, occurred a few months after their 25th wedding anniversary, following the diagnosis of the fast-moving cancer that would shortly take... Read More

The author notes a curious confluence early on in this generally praiseworthy set of essays, before he abandons altogether the inferences of his provocative subtitle. Arbery cites some damning local press that Nobel Laureate Seamus... Read More

The India infusing this promising first novel is already a phantom, an incense shrine to a secondary source. Its naïve narrator, Leela, knows her homeland only through the lush, imported spices sold in her parents’ Kenya shop. When... Read More

The words that fell from Hitler’s mouth in 1933 must have chilled the blood of any non-Aryan remaining in the Weimar Republic. He said, “If there are still those in Germany today who say: we will not submit, then I respond: you will... Read More

As a genre, creative nonfiction is not only teasingly resistant to easy definition, but provocatively open-ended in its scope and sweep. With twenty-five short essays, Saltzman displays a deft touch at eliciting the revelations that can... Read More