I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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It Was the Worst of Times, It Was the Worst of Times
The Tuesday Review
(Knopf)
In this strand of the multiverse, the I that is me is not entirely sure what happens in Emily St. John Mandel’s new novel, Exit Party.
I can only hope this review is smarter in a different dimension.
But at le...
Beating Wreckage Into Relics
(Three Hills/Cornell University Press)
Outside the city hall in Elko, Nev., steel doves fly above a short I-beam taken from the ruins of the World Trade Center some 2,400 miles away.
A pair of architects who work out of their bar-slash-ga...
Emma Cline Loses the Plot — on Purpose
The Tuesday Review
(Random House)
We just don’t do gonzo publishing stories like we used to.
Twelve years ago, publicity focused on Emma Cline like sunlight through a magnifying glass. The 25-year-old unpublished novelist had secured a t...
Libraries Are Not the Problem
Austin’s Central Library. (Photo by Ron Charles)
Read the Room
Tuesday morning, PEN America released a grim report detailing the swarm of attacks pushing our public libraries toward “a breaking point.” Right-wing prigs and other enemies o...
Marlon James and the Horrors of Vanishing
The Tuesday Review
(Riverhead)
You’ll have to read Marlon James’s new novel, The Disappearers, wearing asbestos gloves. The pages of this incomparable epic are fueled by desire and torched by rage.
The author, who won a Booker Prize for...
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