I write about books, authors, and literary culture. Formerly a book critic at The Washington Post.
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The Demands of Love
The Tuesday Review
(Riverhead Books)
Stations, a new novel by the Irish writer Louise Kennedy, lays out a friendship that shapes a heart, and tears it.
Red Camelin is the first boy Róisín McCaffrey has ever spoken to. Not that she’s supp...
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Fascism
(McSweeney’s)
In a thoughtful new book called The Future of Jokes, Robin Ince asks, “When the world is such a joke, how do you parody it?”
That’s the abiding question for satirists in the Age of Trump. How can a profession based on the co...
From Here to Eternity
The Tuesday Review
(Atria Books)
I started reading Matthew Aldrich’s The Natural Order just a few hours after I got a colonoscopy. In the end, the novel was better. But both experiences put me in mind of what we’re willing to endure to li...
Bog Bites Man
Bogland, by Merritt R. Turetsky (W.W. Norton). Sundews in a New Hampshire bog. (Photo by Ron Charles)
The bog near my father’s farmhouse in Andover, New Hampshire, is a deathtrap, particularly if you’re two centimeters tall.
Bog Pond — na...
White Noise
A room of my own. Now in sage.
Working from home for good (or evil) forced me to get serious about a home office. For decades, I’d been toiling away in a finished section of our basement, insisting to myself that the mold smell was just in...
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