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A bar of gold decorates banker Richard's farmhouse mantelpiece. The same also adorns the cover of Natasha Brown's second novel, a reference to the object that sets the story in motion. Universality ...
Read ReviewIn 1963, Jimmy Breslin chronicled the death of John F. Kennedy from the point of view of the man who dug his grave. Instead of joining the big names in journalism in awaiting statements of grief from ...
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Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted
On the twentieth anniversary of the day her first husband left her, Viv, a spirited Londoner and member of the House of Lords, attends a party and makes small talk with a stranger about heartbreak. &...
Read ReviewMadame Sosostris in T.S. Eliot's Poetry
In Madame Sosostris and the Festival for the Brokenhearted, Londoner Viv meets the infamous clairvoyant Madame Sosostris while she is giving readings at the Cholmondeley Room of the House of Lords. ...
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"To tell a divorce story, from start to finish, is beyond betrayal. It would be its own form of infidelity," Haley Mlotek writes in her debut book, No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce. Fittingly...
Read ReviewThe title of Haley Mlotek's debut No Fault: A Memoir of Romance and Divorce is a reference to 'no-fault' divorce, which is a divorce granted without needing to prove wrongdoing by either spouse. For ...
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A Gorgeous Excitement lets readers know from the first line this story won't have a happy ending for all, as it details the murder of a girl who was found dead in Central Park. Cynthia Weiner's author...
Read ReviewA crime that occurred in the summer of 1986 in New York City inspired Cynthia Weiner's A Gorgeous Excitement. On August 26, a cyclist discovered 18-year-old Jennifer Levin in New York City's ...
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Karen Russell's new novel, The Antidote, is narrated in turns by four main characters. We first meet Antonina Rossi, a prairie witch who functions as a "Vault"—someone who absorbs the memories ...
Read ReviewThe Plow That Broke the Plains: A Dust Bowl Documentary
One of the protagonists in The Antidote is Cleo Allfrey, a photographer dispatched by the Resettlement Administration to document life in Nebraska's Dust Bowl. She and others in the book mention a...
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Thirty-one-year-old Florence, a former pop star, is going through an identity crisis. Things don't get any better once her 10-year-old son's bully goes missing. Florence would be lying if she said she...
Read ReviewMariah Carey's The Emancipation of Mimi
In Sarah Harman's All the Other Mothers Hate Me, Florence, an ex-pop star, clings to a notion: that one day, just like Mariah Carey, she will have what she calls her Emancipation of Mimi moment. I...
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The Dream Hotel
by Laila Lalami
A Read with Jenna pick. A riveting novel about one woman's fight for freedom, set in a near future where even dreams are under surveillance.
The Antidote
by Karen Russell
A gripping dust bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.
A Map to Paradise
by Susan Meissner
From the USA Today bestselling author of Only the Beautiful. 1956, Malibu, California: Something is not right on Paradise Circle.
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