Louis Bayard's Jackie & Me offers a fictionalized version of the early relationship between John F. Kennedy and Jackie Bouvier that our First Impressions readers found fascinating. Out of 22 reviews, ...
Read ReviewJackie & Me, Louis Bayard's historical novel about the early days of courtship between John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy (née Bouvier) is narrated by JFK's real-life best friend, Lem Billings. ...
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The summer of 1914 saw the beginning of World War I, the bloody conflict known as the 'war to end all wars.' As the fighting raged on, the number of injured men quickly swelled, and physicians found ...
Read ReviewThe Facemaker by Lindsey Fitzharris tells the story of Harold Gillies, a brilliant surgeon and visionary who helped pioneer the field of facial reconstruction during World War I. Through his ...
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Toni Morrison once wrote, 'My project rises from delight, not disappointment.' This remark appeared in — and referred to — her 1992 volume of essays Playing in the Dark, a scintillating ...
Read ReviewToni Morrison's Playing in the Dark
The novelist Toni Morrison (1931-2019), author of The Bluest Eye, Beloved and many other famous works, is often considered one of the greatest and most influential American writers. However, as Elaine...
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
It's been more than 20 years since Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, but his novel featuring intricate intersections of friendship and ...
Read ReviewBefore they became video game developers, the main characters in Gabrielle Zevin's Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow were kids growing up in the 1980s, and like countless other Generation X kids, ...
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At a trendy Chinese restaurant in downtown Manhattan, Lola, the protagonist of Sloane Crosley's novel Cult Classic, runs into an ex-boyfriend. This is the second of two exes she has seen in as many ...
Read ReviewIt's Raining Men: René Magritte's Golconda (1953)
In Sloane Crosley's novel Cult Classic, protagonist Lola is swept up in an experiment run by a secret society called the Golconda: The society's leader has manufactured a way to induce many of ...
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It's the Roaring Twenties in America, a decade defined by hedonism on the one hand, and prohibition on the other. Though her father is still alive, Mary Engle has spent much of her childhood in a ...
Read ReviewSybil Neville-Rolfe (1885-1955)
Dr. Agnes Vogel, The Foundling's complicated eugenicist arch-villain, has many real analogues in history. As the eugenics movement bloomed in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, women played ...
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Dirt Creek
by Hayley Scrivenor
"A heart-wrenching mystery, Scrivenor's remarkable sense of place brings Dirt Creek to life. A stellar debut."
—Jane Harper,
Widowland
by C. J. Carey
A thrilling feminist dystopian novel set in an alternate 1950s Britain under the control of the Third Reich.
Hamnet
by Maggie O'Farrell
"Of all the stories...about Shakespeare’s life, [Hamnet] is so gorgeously written that it transports you."
—The Boston Globe
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