Book Reviews

10 award-winning story collections worth Reading - washington post

Notable 2022 fiction collections published via book prize contests >

7 Novels that Make U.S. Foreign Policy Feel Real - Electric Lit

From the Iran-Contra Affair to the Vietnam War, these books make clear the human impact of American intervention abroad >

Review of debut fiction – New York Times Book Review

Thoughts on Donal Ryan’s first novel >

Reviews of essay collections – New York Times Book Review

Thoughts on nonfiction by Jace Clayton, Mary Oliver, Benjamin Percy, and Eliot Weinberger. >

Review of debut novel – The Rumpus

Thoughts on Joanna Luloff’s Remind Me Again What Happened >

Reviews of fiction and nonfiction by emerging writers – Tottenville Review

Thoughts on works by Sarah Braunstein, Kathryn Ma, Adam Thirlwell, and Tony Tulathimutte.

The Uncollected Writings of Gina Berriault – Post Road

“Berriault specializes in the discarded, the undervalued, the overlooked. Berriault writes without condescension, without voyeurism. So how is it possible that I, a hardcore fan of short fiction, had never heard of this superb writer?” >

Daphne du Maurier’s short stories – Memorious

“These stories possess the sensory richness and emotional accuracy of nightmares. And despite their shock value, the surprise endings are no mere plot tricks. For they contain that most basic truth: of the known—or suspected—versus confusion or self-deception, of hard physical reality versus fantasy.” >