Book Review: Toni Morrison’s Home Toni Morrison’s Tale Of Siblings Searching For Solace Has Character But Lacks Resolution I’d rather take painting classes from Rachael Ray than read books promoted through a daytime talk show. That’s why there was a time [...] Sam Adams \ May 24, 2012 Read More
Book Review: Ted Heller’s Pocket Kings Ted Heller’s Poker “Memoir” Calls The Literary World’s Bluff When you combine the worst traits of a novelist and a poker player, what you get is a deceitful, narcissistic asshole with an [...] Sam Adams \ Apr 19, 2012 Read More
Book Review: The Flame Alphabet Soap Rendered Useless In Ben Marcus' Apocalyptic Tale Words are a weapon. But how often does language achieve such widespread devastation that it rivals the Ebola virus? And how can words [...] Adam Fox \ Mar 22, 2012 Read More
Book Review: Ferdinand Von Schirach's Guilt Defense-Attorney-Turned-Writer Does Justice To The System In Guilt While German writer Ferdinand von Schirach's Guilt has a very elegant and symbolically sharp cover, I'm more interested in judging the book by [...] Sam Adams \ Mar 15, 2012 Read More
Book Review: Adam And Evelyn German Writer’s Biblical Take On Adultery And Communism Lacks Bite I've said it before, I'll say it again: Literary translation is like throwing a violet into a crucible. Actually it was someone else [...] John Bear \ Feb 23, 2012 Read More
Book Review: Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 Haruki Murakami’s Puzzling, Titanic Saga Haruki Murakami's 1Q84 is daunting at nearly a thousand pages—big enough to smite people. You probably couldn't take this book through airport security. [...] John Bear \ Jan 26, 2012 Read More
Book Review: Ed King David Guterson’s Epic Launches Into Icarus And Incest Writing a modern-day epic as an allegory to Greek mythology—those are some big shoes to fill. A little book called Ulysses comes to [...] Sam Adams \ Jan 19, 2012 Read More
Book Review: Comfort & Joy Holiday And 80-Proof Spirits Collide In India Knight’s Comfort & Joy I was walking the other day when I passed a woman who commanded in my ear that I “Smile!” I ignored her, because [...] John Bear \ Dec 22, 2011 Read More
Book Review: The Journals Of Spalding Gray Posthumous Journal Collection Is Patchy But Endearing Spalding Gray was an asshole who liked to write about himself. I can totally relate. To many, he was a giant of the [...] John Bear \ Dec 08, 2011 Read More
Book Review: Eoin Colfer’s Plugged The Grit And Grime Of Organized Crime It's ugly, filthy, rough around the edges and heart-stoppingly vile. Like a red-haired Rodney Dangerfield, mob life hailing from the Emerald Isle never [...] Adam Fox \ Dec 01, 2011 Read More