Book Review
The Loss of All Lost Things
Loss is an ordinary human experience, and Gautier captures its commonality well, making The Loss of all Lost Things an emotionally triumphant collection. Amina Gautier’s short story collection "The Loss of All Lost Things" is an...
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To Any Soldier
A college student and a soldier trade letters in this indelible coming-of-age novel. G. C. Hendricks and Kathryn Watson Quigg’s poignant To Any Soldier: A Novel of Vietnam Letters is the story of a yearlong exchange of letters between...
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This Earth You'll Come Back To
Roether has crafted a haunting, complete, and triumphant novel from one character’s perspective. It is a stellar and distinctive achievement. This Earth You’ll Come Back To, by Barbara Roether, is a singular, profoundly moving debut...
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Edgar Allan Poe
Cafiero’s biofiction is an outstanding literary achievement. It deserves to be read. Edgar Allan Poe: The Ambiguity of Death, the latest biographical novel by Italian author Giuseppe Cafiero, is a linguistically intricate and intensely...
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The State of the American Mind
Mental laziness, overblown belief in self, and indifference to political awareness all serve to enfeeble the American experiment. In The State of the American Mind: 16 Leading Critics on the New Anti-Intellectualism, editors Mark...
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Talking Story
Phan-Lê’s intimate narrative and exploration of humankind’s vanishing cultures will intrigue and inform a wide readership. In Talking Story: One Woman’s Quest to Preserve Ancient Spiritual and Healing Traditions, a companion to...
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Trajectory
A traumatized veteran feels duped by his nation in this ambitious novel with something relevant to say. In Billy Whitehead’s "Trajectory", Iraq War veteran Brad Soames returns home suffering the loss of friends killed in the line of...
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America's First Female President ... 2016?
Documenting the history of changing values in American politics, the author attempts to assert the importance of women in politics. In this brief book, Thomas E. Davis asserts that America is in decline and argues that the country’s...