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There could be many potential answers to the question, ‘What is Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook about?’ Almost like a literary Rorschach …

Despite the almost universal outpouring of joy over Helen Sedgwick’s tale of love and loss across the centuries and generations of a …

Reflections in a Golden Eye by Carson McCullers was given to me by a friend who understands I have a fixation on …

Children have a fixation with the downright gruesome. I found this out when I recently re-discovered a picture book by Heinrich Hoffman …

My review of How to Travel Without Seeing by Andres Neuman is now up at Minor Literature[s]. A break-neck record of musings, …

With Secrets of the Sea House, Elisabeth Gifford has crafted a tale of survival. Surviving the most terrible events and moving through …

There are few writers whose work I read avidly as a teen that I can still enjoy something new from, so the pleasure of …

Ever had the feeling you have been drugged with a literary pill? You pick up a book and cannot stop reading it; …

I begin this Revolutionary Road review by noting that Richard Yates’s novel is a remarkable reflection on American society. Frank and April …

Who is it that writes these days? We all send emails, text messages, tweets and status updates on social media and become …