

3 days ago
Six More of My Favorite Historical Fiction Reads of the Year
Six More Great Bossy Historical Fiction Reads It's March, and I'm still spending Fridays obsessing over my favorite reads of the past...


4 days ago
Review of Famous Last Words by Gillian McAllister
The author of the fantastic Wrong Place, Wrong Time is back with a smart, twisty mystery that's wonderfully heavy on character...


5 days ago
Review of Show Don't Tell: Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld
In Curtis Sittenfeld's wonderful second short-story collection, we meet imperfect characters, often fortysomething women, in moments...


6 days ago
Review of The Favorites by Layne Fargo
I loved the behind-the-scenes peeks at the drama, punishing hard work, sequins, and mind games of competitive figure skating. The...


7 days ago
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/17/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the recently published Kills Well with Others , the newest novel in Deanna Raybourn's irresistible...


Mar 13
Review of The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Whitehead, inspired by a real-life reform school that abused and terrorized boys for over a century, shares a tale of racial injustice,...


Mar 12
Review of The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
Jonathan Haidt's examination of the power of smartphones and social media may feel logical and disturbingly unsurprising, but he offers...


Mar 11
Review of Dungeons and Drama by Kristy Boyce
In Kristy Boyce's young-adult charmer, high schoolers Riley and Nathan, coworkers who have nothing in common, end up in a fake-dating...


Mar 10
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/10/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading the recently published Red Dog Farm , Nathanial Ian Miller's fiction about a young man growing up...


Mar 7
Six of My Favorite Literary Fiction Reads of the Year
Six Great Bossy Literary Fiction Reads I read so many read literary fiction books last year, I'll need another best-of-the-year list. But...


Mar 6
Review of Daisy Jones & the Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Taylor Jenkins Reid offers the story of a band, its making, and its unmaking, through interviews with various characters that illuminate...


Mar 5
Review of The Book of Love by Kelly Link
In Kelly Link's wonderfully oddball debut novel The Book of Love , she uses every bit of the book's 640 pages to build realities,...


Mar 4
Review of Time of the Child by Niall Williams
Time of the Child feels like poetry in prose form, and Williams richly shapes a small-town Irish community's everyday and extraordinary...


Mar 3
Three Books I'm Reading Now, 3/3/25 Edition
The Books I'm Reading Now I'm reading The Anxious Generation , nonfiction by Jonathan Haidt that explores technology and an explosion of...