Mermaids (novel)
a 1986 coming-of-age novel by American writer Patty Dann
End Insights
Garth Greenwell’s novel of living through a health crisis
the rise of red china
by robert goldston
Israeli police raid Jerusalem bookshops and arrest Palestinian owners
Mahmoud Muna and his nephew Ahmed Muna were held overnight on charges of “violating public order” after the Educational Bookstore shops were ransacked. Images on social media showed piles of…
A Roon with a View
Modernism meets millennial in a novel of sibling rivalry and complicated romance
Drama King
Evidently, one has many experiences as an actor that are incommunicable, or at least not directly communicated. But this is not so isolating as it may seem. Pacino has come…
I Am a Truck
by Michelle Winters
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals
The twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein. It is often read as a warning about the perils of science, but as the daughter of Wollstonecraft, England’s…
My Brilliant Frenemy
The contentious bond between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz