Review of Alice Munro’s Runaway
Angie Kritenbrink reviews Alice Munro's newest collection of stories
Book Reviews
Reviews of books and other forms of literature
Review of Patricia O’Brien’s The Glory Cloak
The Glory Cloak, the new book by Patricia O’Brien, is a lot of fun to read.
Review of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker
Angie Kritenbrink reviews The Dew Breaker by Edwidge Danticat
Like Camphor in Fire: Elizabeth Kadetsky’s First There is a Mountain
Colette LaBouff reviews First There Is a Mountain: A Yoga Romance by Elizabeth Kadetsky
A Deeply Intellectual Review of Kate Atkinson’s Not The End of the World
Matt Borondy reviews Kate Atkinson' Not the End of the World. Sort of.
A Review of Craig Childs’ Soul of Nowhere
The best thing I can say about the good luck this book brought me is that I didn't develop my current illness until after reading it and moving on to another.
Portrait of the Author as a Revolutionary: Matthew Flaming Reviews Ian Spiegelman’s Everyone’s Burning
The marketing attached to Ian Spiegelman’s first novel, Everyone’s Burning, is a masterpiece in this genre of the subtle sell.
The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Writer: The Work of David Castleman
Castleman's writing bears the indelible stamp of being the work of an outsider; his stories and prose are the words of a loner.
Death Writ Small: Matthew Flaming Reviews Adam Voith’s Stand Up, Ernie Baxter: You’re Dead
Ernie Baxter begins with the death of the eponymous character, a small-time stand up comedian from the Midwest, who watches and narrates from heaven as his friends and family cope with his passing.
Søren Kierkegaard’s Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death
Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, says that we realize not peace but only anguish.