BY GARTH GREENWELL In the Lambda Award-winning Humphreys’ luminous new book, the Second World War serves as a grand backdrop for the intimate dramas … [Read more...] about Helen Humphreys’ ‘The Evening Chorus’: Book Review
Kim Fu’s ‘For Today I Am A Boy’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Early in this uncommonly moving debut novel—the last book I read in 2014, and one of the best—the young narrator, Peter Huang, goes … [Read more...] about Kim Fu’s ‘For Today I Am A Boy’: Book Review
Joyce Brabner’s ‘Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, And Dealers Plotted Against The Plague’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Joyce Brabner’s nonfiction graphic novel recounts the early years of the AIDS crisis as experienced by a tight-knit circle of “gay … [Read more...] about Joyce Brabner’s ‘Second Avenue Caper: When Goodfellas, Divas, And Dealers Plotted Against The Plague’: Book Review
Shelly Oria’s ‘New York 1, Tel Aviv 0’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Disorientation afflicts nearly all of the characters in Shelly Oria’s nimble and disarmingly moving debut collection of stories. … [Read more...] about Shelly Oria’s ‘New York 1, Tel Aviv 0’: Book Review
Colm Tóibín’s ‘Nora Webster’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL It’s hard to explain the speed and excitement with which I turned the pages of the Irish writer Colm Tóibín’s astonishingly … [Read more...] about Colm Tóibín’s ‘Nora Webster’: Book Review
Saeed Jones’s ‘Prelude To Bruise’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Saeed Jones begins this electrifying book—one of the most exciting debut collections I’ve read in years—with a quotation from … [Read more...] about Saeed Jones’s ‘Prelude To Bruise’: Book Review
Michael Carroll’s ‘Little Reef And Other Stories’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL The characters in the moving, innovative stories of Michael Carroll’s debut collection always find themselves just to the side … [Read more...] about Michael Carroll’s ‘Little Reef And Other Stories’: Book Review
Francine Prose’s ‘Lovers At The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL In Brassaï’s famous photograph, Lesbian Couple at Le Monocle, 1932, two women sit together at a shabby café table in Paris. One … [Read more...] about Francine Prose’s ‘Lovers At The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932’: Book Review
Mark Gevisser’s ‘Lost And Found In Johannesburg’: A Memoir: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Mark Gevisser’s extraordinary new book takes on several projects at once: It’s a memoir of his own and his family’s history; an … [Read more...] about Mark Gevisser’s ‘Lost And Found In Johannesburg’: A Memoir: Book Review
Emma Donoghue’s ‘Frog Music’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL On September 14, 1876, as San Francisco suffered under the twin plagues of record-breaking heat and an epidemic of smallpox, a … [Read more...] about Emma Donoghue’s ‘Frog Music’: Book Review