Peng Shepherd's first novel ticks off the familiar conventions of post-apocalyptic tales ... What distinguishes The Book of M, apart from Shepherd's graceful language and skilled pacing, is the nature ...

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Gonzalez is a writer whose straightforward prose downplays its subtlety and brilliance. Her characters are arresting, and she is Whartonesque when it comes to describing the folkways of a particular ...

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 ...

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

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

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...[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 ...