Review: “Bunker Hill” by Nathaniel Philbrick
"I cannot pretend to describe the horror of the scene," Adjutant John Waller, a British soldier, would write of the Battle of Bunker Hill. He nevertheless tries. Inside the fortifications,...
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Review: “Woke Up Lonely” by Fiona Maazel
Fiona Maazel possesses a formidable imagination and considerable linguistic virtuosity. Yet her second novel, "Woke Up Lonely," a dystopian picaresque featuring a cultlike organization, government spies, a visit to North...
Review: ‘Harvard Square’ by Andre Aciman
André Aciman's entertaining and moving new novel, "Harvard Square," begins in the present, with the fraught ritual of the college tour. In this case, it is complicated by the father's...
Review: ‘Harvard Square’ by Andre Aciman
André Aciman's entertaining and moving new novel, "Harvard Square," begins in the present, with the fraught ritual of the college tour. In this case, it is complicated by the father's...
Review: ‘The Book of My Lives’ by Aleksandar Hemon
Aleksandar Hemon, the 48-year-old Bosnian refugee who has become one of this city's literary rock stars, can amuse and he can devastate. That he does both in his second language,...
Review: ‘The Obituary Writer’ by Ann Hood
With John F. Kennedy's inauguration approaching, the country stirs with excitement. But even as she joins her suburban Virginia neighbors in wagering on the color of Jackie Kennedy's outfit, Claire...
‘Swoon,’ Betsy Prioleau’s book about Casanovas, can’t get past first base
It's hard not to be seduced by a title like "Swoon: Great Seducers and Why Women Love Them." I confess: It happened to me. But, as with its subject, there...
‘The World Until Yesterday’ suggests modernity could learn from traditional societies
On one of Jared Diamond's frequent trips to New Guinea, where he was studying birds, he ended up in raging waters alongside eight others when their 30-foot-long canoe began to...
‘The World Until Yesterday’ suggests modernity could learn from traditional societies
On one of Jared Diamond's frequent trips to New Guinea, where he was studying birds, he ended up in raging waters alongside eight others when their 30-foot-long canoe began to...
Richard Russo goes back to Gloversville
Fans of Richard Russo will turn eagerly to "Elsewhere," his new memoir, for insight into the small-town setting that figures so prominently in his Pulitzer Prize-winning "Empire Falls" and other...