It lacks the anger and outrage that animated Fountain’s political reporting. It’s actually a magic realist fantasia ... I’m afraid I’m making Rasputin Swims the Potomac sound like more fun than it is ...

...[a] stirring new historical novel ... There’s a pleasingly old-fashioned feel to Mosse’s storytelling, with its chaste lovers, purloined letters, breathless escapes, plotting aristos, plucky ...

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Arafat’s layered, politically and socially needed essays are a rich addition to the growing literature of the diaspora. An ...

Focused on Mr. David’s career, Emperor of Nothing gives short shrift to Mr. David’s romantic history. It ain't bad ... To ...

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A dying gangster's plea sends Joe King Oliver on a quest for a missing woman across America's coasts--unraveling a dark and ...

A Personal Story by Haruki Murakami, trans. by Philip Gabriel has an overall rating of Rave based on 5 book reviews.

It’s to Oisín McKenna’s credit that, in his debut, he manages to deliver such a compelling narrative ... Maggie and Ed... perhaps betray the novelist’s rawness in that they’re less well drawn ... One ...

Morbid: Debunking Modern Longevity Science by Saul Justin Newman has an overall rating of Rave based on 5 book reviews.

This grim but powerful book portrays the many incompatible states of existence, and the baffling collapse of time, that stem ...

A True Story of Murder, War, and America's Undoing in the Middle East by Kim Ghattas has an overall rating of Rave based on 4 ...