Ignore details of story and circumstance, and connections between The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet and Cloud Atlas are evident, many of which relate to the nature of belief, to pernicious ideas ...

n this lavishly illustrated new biography, writer Duster, who is Wells’s great-granddaughter, explores the activist’s life and work through the lens of her family connection to Wells as well as our ...

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A positive rating based on 11 book reviews for The Guarded Gate: Bigotry, Eugenics and the Law That Kept Two Generations of Jews, Italians, and Other European Immigrants Out of Americ by Daniel Okrent ...

All the Names They Used for God, Anjali Sachdeva’s striking debut short-story collection, isn’t missing much except a default mode. The nine stories range from more or less realistic to ambiguously ...

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

Had there been an award for the best new book that defies every genre, I imagine it would have won that, too. H Is for Hawk is an improbable and hybrid creature. It is one part grief memoir, one part ...

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 ...

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

Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row by Lawrence Wright has an overall rating of Rave based on 3 book reviews.

A rave rating based on 14 book reviews for The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson ...