“I was huge! I was horny! I was … careful. When I looked at Séan, and he at me, it was always eye to eye.” This is the compelling and candid voice of Gina Moynihan, the snarky and sensual thirty-four-year-old narrator of Anne... Read More

On learning that, though elderly and barren, she’d finally have the child promised to her all those years ago, the Biblical matriarch, Sarah, laughs, surreptitiously. Whether read as bitter or joyous, nervous or skeptical, it’s in... Read More

One Nation under AARP is an interesting book for two interrelated reasons. First, it addresses the financial plight of baby boomers. Second, it does so in the context of the growing influence of AARP, an organization that is arguably the... Read More

Wrenching and raw, "The Warsaw Anagrams" by Richard Zimler is an historical suspense novel as unique as it is compelling. The book’s narrator is the ibbur (Hebrew for “ghost” or “spirit”) of Erik Cohen, once a well-respected... Read More

“The Stark River flowed around the oxbow at Murrayville the way blood flowed through Margo Crane’s heart.” These lines begin Bonnie Jo Campbell’s stunning new novel, Once Upon a River, a story whose seemingly simple rhythm is as... Read More

Novelist, playwright, and non-fiction author Caryl Phillips has been the “other” in several cultures: in 1950s Britain after his family migrated from St. Kitts; in the US, where he spends part of the year on the faculty of Yale... Read More

Memory is the food of the mind. We are a composite of our memories—and what we do remember is as important as what we forget. Each person’s past is unique terrain, formed by the events that have shaped who we are: that rusty swing... Read More

“Marriage turns romance into misery,” says Julia Connery, now fifty-three and worried that hers is going sour. Through Julia’s eyes, Bee Robb’s "My Occasional Torment" explores relationships between couples—mostly middle-aged... Read More