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
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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
Tatamkhulu Afrika’s ‘Bitter Eden’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL On the first page of Tatamkhulu Afrika’s intense and passionate novel, the narrator, Tom Smith, receives a package from a man he … [Read more...] about Tatamkhulu Afrika’s ‘Bitter Eden’: Book Review
Rabih Alameddine’s ‘An Unnecessary Woman’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL Aaliya Selah, the irreverent, vibrant, hilarious, and fiercely solitary narrator of Rabih Alameddine’s brilliant new novel, has … [Read more...] about Rabih Alameddine’s ‘An Unnecessary Woman’: Book Review
Randall Mann’s ‘Straight Razor’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL The elegant, savage poems of Randall Mann’s excellent third collection are filled with the unglamorous stuff of daily life, from a … [Read more...] about Randall Mann’s ‘Straight Razor’: Book Review
Janette Jenkins’ ‘Firefly’: Book Review
BY GARTH GREENWELL This short, beautiful novel takes place over a brief period in 1971, as the British playwright and composer Noël Coward, in the … [Read more...] about Janette Jenkins’ ‘Firefly’: Book Review