Reviews by Roberta Silman
Book Review: Shannon Bowring’s Compellingly Large Visions of Small-Town Life
The Road to Dalton by Shannon Bowring
Where the Forest Meets the River by Shannon Bowring
Book Reviews: Joan Acocella and Andrea Marcolongo — Writers Who Think Fearlessly
Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints by Joan Acocella; The Bloodied Nightgown and Other Essays by Joan Acocella; Moving the Moon, A Night at the Acropolis Museum by Andrea Marcolongo
Book Review: “Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair” — More Relevant Than Ever
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels
Book Review: Maya Arad’s “The Hebrew Teacher”—Balancing Conflict and Compassion
The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
Book Review: “The Road from Belhaven” — How Hope and Resilience Can Prevail
The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey
Book Review: “How to Build a Boat” — A Novel That Breaks and Lifts the Heart
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
Book Review: “The House of Doors” — Changing Skies and Expanding Visions
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Book Review: “Democracy Awakening” — The Rise of Authoritarian Vistas
Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Book Appreciation: Celebrating Kate Atkinson’s “Life After Life” – The Best Novel of the 21st Century
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Book Review: Elizabeth Graver’s “Kantika” — A Vibrant Portrait of Bravery
Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
Book Review: “Fearless Women” — A Vivid, Rounded Portrait of the Choices Facing America’s Women
Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots From Abigail Adams to Beyoncé by Elizabeth Cobbs
Book Review: “All Sorts of Lives” — Katherine Mansfield, A Magician With Words
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
Book Review: Andrea Barrett’s Magical “Natural History”
Natural History by Andrea Barrett
Book Feature: An Excerpt From Roberta Silman’s “Summer Lightning”
As Spring approaches, a treat. An excerpt from Summer Lightning, the latest novel by Arts Fuse critic Roberta Silman. It is a book that attempts to convey happiness.
Literary Appreciation: Grace Paley and the Swiveling Light of Truth
An homage to Grace Paley, one of the great American writers of the 20th century.
Book Review: Irish Author Claire Keegan Hits Her Stride
Small Things Like These and Foster by Claire Keegan
Book Review: Colette’s “Chéri” and “The End of Chéri” — Tales of Love and Morality
Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette, Translated by Rachel Careau
Book Appreciation: A.B. Yehoshua’s “Mr. Mani” — A Great Work of Fiction
Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua
Book Review: “Hemingway’s Widow” — Not a Pretty Story
Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian
Book Review: “Letters to Camondo” — An Essential Testament to Jewish Memory and History
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
Book Review: “The Wrong End of the Telescope” — A Stunning Achievement
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Book Review: Elizabeth Warren and Alexander S. Vindman — Gifted with a Moral Compass
Persist by Elizabeth Warren and Here, Right Matters, An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman
Documentary Review: PBS’s “Hemingway” — Inside an American Legend
Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
Book Review: Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt” — Closing the Circle, Perfectly
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Book Review: “Renato!” — Novelist Eugene Mirabelli, Creator of Inwardness
Renato! by Eugene Mirabelli
Book Review: Colum McCann’s “Apeirogon” — Showing a Path Forward
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Book Review: A Brilliant “Homeland Elegies” — Indispensable Witness
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Literary Appreciation: D. H. Lawrence’s “Women in Love” at 100
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence, 1920
Book Review: A.B. Yehoshua’s “The Tunnel” — A Serious Romp about an Aging Brain
The Tunnel by A.B. Yehoshua
Book Review: Art Critic Peter Schjeldahl — Connecting Readers to the World in a New Way
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 and Let's See, Writings on Art From The New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl
Book Review: “Immigrant Architect — Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream,” a Splendid Book about Design for all Ages
Immigrant Architect — Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream by Berta de Miguel, Kent Diebolt, Virginia Lorente (Illustrations)
Book Review: “Invisible Years” — A Book for the Ages
Invisible Years: A Family's Collected Account of Separation and Survival During the Holocaust in the Netherlands by Daphne Geismar
Book Review: “The Planter of Modern Life” — A Biography of an Agricultural Visionary
The Planter of Modern Life, Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman
Book Review: “Franci’s War” — A Very Relevant Holocaust Memoir
Franci's War, A Woman's Story of Survival by Franci Rabinek Epstein
Book Review: “Tightrope” — A Wake-up Call for America
Tightrope, Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
Book Review: "A Grief Sublime" — A Lasting Testament to the Power of Words to Sustain and Heal
A Grief Sublime by Beth Robbins
Book Review: “Blowout” — A Devastating Vision of What is at Stake
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “Lampedusa” — Writing “The Leopard”
Lampedusa by Steven Price
The Arts Fuse Book Review: A Memorial to Lucette Lagnado’s Two Remarkable Memoirs
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (Ecco, 2007) and The Arrogant Years (HarperCollins, 2011) by Lucette Lagnado
The Art Fuse Theater Review: “The Waverly Gallery” — A Powerful Look into a Descent into Dementia
The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “In Extremis” — A Flawed Heroine
In Extremis: The Life and Death of the War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
The Arts Fuse Book Review: Simon Mawer—The Fragility of Freedom
Prague Spring by Simon Mawer
The Arts Fuse Book Review: Anthony Powell — Among the Most Modern of 20th Century English Writers
Anthony Powell, Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
The Arts Fuse Book Review: Edith Wharton and Michelle Obama — Breaking New Ground for Women
Edith Wharton in France by Claudine Lesage / Becoming by Michelle Obama
The Arts Fuse Book Review: Esi Edugyan's magnificent new novel
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “Your Duck Is My Duck” — Not Enough Tingles
Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
The Arts Fuse Book Commentary: Philip Roth — American Warnings
American Warnings by Philip Roth
The Arts Fuse Theater Review: “Morning After Grace” — A Cause for Celebration
Morning After Grace by Carey Crim. Directed by Regge Life. Staged by Shakespeare & Company Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox, MA
The Arts Fuse Theater Review: “Anna Christie” — A Memorable Look at Life on the Margins
Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill
The Arts Fuse Theater Review: “Orlando” — Asking What Gender Really Means
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando adapted by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by A. Nora Long. Staged by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston
The Arts Fuse Book Review: Tale of Two Short Story Collections, Schutt and Ortese
Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt and Neapolitan Chronicles by Anna Maria Ortese
The Arts Fuse Book Review: Charlotte Salomon — A Magnificent Act of Faith
Life? or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “Surviving Jersey” — Chronicling Wild Times
Surviving Jersey, Danger and Insanity in the Garden State by Scott Loring Sanders
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “We Were Eight Years in Power” — An Essential Book
We Were Eight Years in Power, An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Arts Fuse Theater Review: “Souvenir” — An Intimate Gem
Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Temperley
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “Love, Madness & Scandal” — Among the Metaphysicals
Love, Madness & Scandal, The Life of Frances Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck by Johanna Luthman
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “Birdcage Walk” — Helen Dunmore’s Exhilarating Farewell
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
The Arts Fuse Classical Music Review: A Bleak “Black Monk” at Tanglewood
Shostakovich and the Black Monk—A Russian Fantasy at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “The Songs We Know Best” — The Youth of Poet John Ashbery
The Songs We Know Best, John Ashbery’s Early Life by Karin Roffman
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “Women in the World of Frederick Douglass” — Crucial Partners
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass by Leigh Fought
The Arts Fuse Book Review: Gershom Scholem — A Rich and Complicated Jewish Life
Stranger in a Strange Land, Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem by George Prochnik
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “Shooting Creek and Other Stories” — The Presence of Evil
Shooting Creek and Other Stories by Scott Loring Sanders
The Arts Fuse Book Review: “The Year of the Comet” — Surviving History
The Year of the Comet by Sergei Lebedev
The Arts Fuse Book Review: The “Inexhaustibility” of Angela Carter
The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
The Arts Fuse Appreciation: The Fiction of William Trevor — A Mixture of Compassion and Horror
Appreciating the work of William Trevor
Fuse Book review: Book Review: “The Menorah” and “The Book of Aron”
The Menorah, From the Bible to Modern Israel by Steven Fine and The Book of Aron by Jim Shepard.
Fuse Book Review: “His Only Son” — A Delightful Discovery from Turn-of-the-Century Spain
His Only Son (with Doña Berta) by Leopoldo Alas
Fuse Book Review: Rabih Alameddine’s “Angel of History” — Knocked Askew
The Angel of History by Rabih Alameddine
Fuse Book Review: Thomas De Quincey — A Memorably “Guilty Thing”
Guilty Thing, A Life of Thomas De Quincey by Frances Wilson
Fuse Book Review: A. B. Yehoshua’s “The Extra” — A Genius for Dissecting Family Matters
The Extra by A.B. Yehoshua. Translated from the Hebrew by Stuart Schoffman
Fuse Author Appreciation: The Fiction of Kent Haruf — Surviving Ordinary Life with Grace
an essay about the late Kent Haruf (1943-2014)
Fuse Book Review: “The Last Painting of Sara De Vos” — On Art and Forgery
The Last Painting of Sara De Vos by Dominic Smith
Fuse Book Review: Helen Dunmore’s Terrific “Exposure”
Exposure by Helen Dunmore
Fuse Book Review: An Uneven “Bottomland”
Bottomland by Michelle Hoover
Fuse Book Review: “Living On Paper” — Letters From Iris Murdoch
Living on Paper, Letters From Iris Murdoch, 1934-1995 Edited by Avril Horner & Anne Rowe
Fuse Concert Review: Mirror Visions — An Extraordinary Vocal Ensemble
Flights of Fantasy, a Concert by the Mirror Visions Ensemble
Fuse Book Review: “Winter” — A Luminous Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man
Winter by Christopher Nicholson
Fuse Book Review: “The Big Green Tent” — Lives Lived Without Trust, Memorably Conveyed
The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya, Translated by Polly Gannon
Fuse Book Review: Living With the Spenders—Surviving an Odd Childhood
A House in St. John’s Wood: In Search of My Parents by Matthew Spender
Fuse Book Review: “Death by Water”—Imagination, Masterfully Redeemed
Death by Water by Kenzaburo Oe
Fuse Book Review: Two From Andreï Makine — A Matter of Trust
Brief Loves That Live Forever and A Woman Loved by Andreï Makine, both translated by Geoffrey Strachan
Fuse Book Review: “Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern” — The Woman Behind a Remarkable Legacy
Peggy Guggenheim, The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
Fuse Book Review: The Resilient Wisdom of Tony Judt – For the Ages
When The Facts Change, Essays 1995-2010 by Tony Judt
Fuse Book Review: Admiring Anne Enright’s “The Green Road”
The Green Road by Anne Enright
Fuse Theater Review: “The How and the Why” — The Science of Being Human
The How and Why by Sarah Treem
Fuse Film Review: “Archie’s Betty” — A Charming Documentary about Comic Book Americana
Archie’s Betty, written and directed by Gerald Peary
Fuse Book Review: “Girl of My Dreams” — A Vivid Look at Hollywood and History
Girl of My Dreams: A Novel by Peter Davis
Fuse Book Review: “Academy Street” — Affirming Life in Fresh and Surprising Ways
Academy Street by Mary Costello
Fuse Book Review: “The Bridal Chair” — Surviving Genius
The Bridal Chair by Gloria Goldreich
Fuse Book Review: “Erebus” — A Brilliant Hybrid That Bears Witness to Tragedy
Erebus by Jane Summer
Fuse Book Review: “A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz” — Destined to Become a Classic
A Brief Stop on the Road From Auschwitz by Göran Rosenberg
Fuse Concert Review: The Innovative Organist Cameron Carpenter — Shaping Music in Surprising Ways
Sanders Theatre for Cameron Carpenter’s concert
Fuse Book Review: “Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, A Strange Romance” — But an Amazing Marriage
Mr. and Mrs. Disraeli, A Strange Romance by Daisy Hay. Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Fuse Book Review: The Remarkable Life of Storm Jameson — Attention Tenderly Paid
Life in the Writings of Storm Jameson by Elisabeth Maslen
Fuse Book Review: “Havel: A Life” — A Splendid Biography of a Seminal Artist/Statesman
Havel: A Life by Michael Zantovsky
Fuse Book Review: “In Certain Circles” and “The Last Lover” — The Powerful and The Disappointing
In Certain Circles by Elizabeth Harrower
Fuse Book Review: Marilynne Robinson’s “Lila” — A Vision of Life More Damned Than Redeemed
Lila by Marilynne Robinson
Fuse Book Review: “Love Made Visible” — A Poignant Memoir About Life With a Boston “Renaissance Man”
Love Made Visible, Scenes from a Mostly Happy Marriage by Jean Gibran
Fuse Classical Music Commentary: The Boston University Tanglewood Institute — A Marvelous Experience For All
The Young Artists Orchestra from The Boston University Tanglewood Institute
Fuse Book Review: “A Replacement Life” — Russian Immigrants in America, Depicted with Exuberance
A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
Fuse Concert Review: Singer Ute Gfrerer at Goethe Institut — An Evening of Uncommon Grace
Singer Ute Gfrerer and pianist William Merrill
Fuse Book Review: “The Poets’ Wives” — What Does it Mean to be Married to a Poet?
The Poets’ Wives by David Park
Fuse Book Review: “The Marrying of Chani Kaufman” — The World of the Ultra-Orthodox Jews, Treated With Verve and Empathy
The Marrying of Chani Kaufman by Eve Harris
Fuse Commentary: Wes Anderson, Stefan Zweig, and Discovering the Value of “The World of Yesterday”
THE WORLD OF YESTERDAY by Stefan Zweig
Fuse Book Review: “To the End of the Land” — A Work of Art About Israel, Fear, and Love
To The End of the Land by David Grossman
Fuse Book Review: “Caught” — Running Drugs, Harum-Scarum Style
Caught by Lisa Moore
Fuse Book Review: Appreciating the Life of George Orwell — A Giant of the 20th Century
George Orwell, A Life in Letters Selected and Annotated by Peter Davison
Fuse Book Review: “An Unnecessary Woman” — A Memorable Story of Redemption
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine
Fuse Book Review: “Country of Ash” — Another Essential Holocaust Memoir
Country of Ash: A Jewish Doctor in Poland, 1939-1945 by Edward Reicher
Fuse Book Review: “The Hired Man” — A Powerful Novel about the Aftermath of War
The Hired Man by Aminatta Forna
boston globe: ‘The Aftermath’ by Rhidian Brook
The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook
Fuse Book Review: “The Old Priest” — Exquisite Stories About Being Human
The Old Priest by Anthony Wallace
Boston Globe: ‘In Times of Fading Light’ by Eugen Ruge
In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge
REVISED: Judicial Review #11: “The Great Gatsby” — A Great Opera?
The Great Gatsby music by John Haribson
Fuse Book Review: “In the Land of the Living” — A Coming-of-Age Yarn Mixed With Grief
In the Land of the Living by Austin Ratner
Fuse Theater Review: Chaim Potok’s “The Chosen” — Brought Memorably to Life on Stage
The Chosen by Aaron Posner
Fuse Book Review: Israeli Novelist A.B. Yehoshua’s Fascinating “Retrospective”
The Retrospective by A.B. Yehoshua. Translated by Stuart Schoffman.
Fuse Book Review: “The Wanting” — Ambitious and Audacious Fiction about the Middle East
The Wanting by Michael Lavigne
the art fuse:Judicial Review #10: Discussing the Point of Elizabeth Graver’s “The End of the Point”
The End of The Point by Elizabeth Graver
Fuse Book Review: A Remarkable “My Beloved World”
My Beloved World by Sonia Sotomayer
Fuse Book Review: Transformation Amid an Egypt in Decay — “The House of Jasmine”
the house of jasmine by Ibrahim Abdel Meguid
Fuse Book Review: The Wonderful and Silly Adventures of “The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared”
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson
Fuse Book Review: “Thinner Than Skin” — Ambitious to a Fault
Thinner Than Skin by Uzma Aslam Khan
Fuse Remembrance: A Grateful Farewell to this Generation’s Best Champion of the Short Story
A Fairwell to Isaiah Sheffer
Fuse Book Review: A Wilted “Black Flower” From Korea
Black Flower by Young-Ha Kim
the boston globe: ‘The News from Spain’ by Joan Wickersham
The News from Spain by Joan Wickersham
Fuse Book Review: Steve Stern’s Fabulous “Book of Mischief”
The Book of Mischief, New and Selected Stories by Steve Stern
Fuse Book Review: “The Greatcoat” – A Great Ghost Story?
The Greatcoatby Helen Dunmore
Fuse Book Review: “Motherless Child” — The Redemptive Powers of Classical Music
Motherless Child by Marianne Langner Zeitlin
Fuse Opera Review/Commentary: A Magisterial “Lost in the Stars” at Glimmerglass
Lost in the Stars a co-production of Cape Town Opera and Glimmerglass Opera
the boston globe: Letters show a young, eager Edith Wharton
My Dear Governess, Letters of Edith Wharton to Anna Bahlmann edited by Irene Goldman-Price
Fuse Fiction Review: “Sarah Thornhill” — A Lyrical Song in the Australian Outback
Sarah Thornhill by Kate Grenville
Fuse Book Review: “Second Person Singular”—A Powerful Look at Israel’s Tangled Issues of Identity
Second Person Singular by Sayed Kashua
Fuse Appreciation: The Centenary of Australian Giant Patrick White
Fuse Appreciation: The Centenary of Australian Giant Patrick White
Fuse Book Review: “When the Night” — A Memorably Icy Love Story
When The Night by Cristina Comencini
Fuse Book Review: “The O’Briens”— A Grand Family Epic
The O'Briens by Peter Behrens
Fuse Theater Review: All Glory to “Gatz” — “The Great Gatsby” Takes the Stage
Gatz directed by John Collins
Fuse Book Review: Celebrating “The Flowers of War”
The flowers of War by Geling Yan
Fuse Book Review: “Three Weeks in December”
Three Weeks In December by Audrey Schulman
Fuse Book Review: "The Secret in Their Eyes" — An Impressive Work of Art
The Secret in Their Eyes by Eduardo Sacheri
Fuse Book Review: An Outstanding "List"
The List by Martin Fletcher
Fuse Book Review: Brilliant "Shards"
Shards by Ismet Prcic
the boston globe: A richer, detailed portrait of van Gogh
VAN GOGH: The Life By Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
Fuse Book Review: A Memoir That Gives Solace to Us All
Lives other than My own by Emmanuel Carrere
fuse book commentary: The Emperor of Lies = The Emperor's New Clothes?
The Emperor of Lies by Steve Sem-Sandberg
Fuse Book Review: Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream -- Updated
The Great Night by Chris Adrian
Fuse Book Review: A Puzzling Look at the West, Islam, and The Convert
The Convert, A Parable of Islam and America by Deborah Baker
The Boston Globe: The Barbarity of Slavery Bared
Song of Slaves in the Desert by Alan Cheuse
the boston globe: In our time
The Paris Wife by Paula McLain
The New York Times: In the Company of Ghosts
THE RINGS OF SATURN by W.G. Sebald
Fuse Book Review: Two Old Men Singing of Wisdom
Solo by Rana Dasgupta
Fuse Book Review: Exploring “The Memory of Love” in postwar Sierra Leone
The Memory of Love by Aminatta Forna
The Virginia Quarterly: A Consummate Artist
Willa Cather and The Politics of Criticism By Joan Acocella
The Virginia Quarterly: A Radiance of Attention
The Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed By Jane Cooper
The Boston Globe: Dazed and confused in a perilous Tokyo underworld
Country of Origin By Don Lee
The Boston Globe: Living 'in between' in chaotic 1950s Kenya
The In-Between World of Vikram Lall By M. G. Vassanji
The Boston Globe: Home alone
The Lost Mother By Mary McGarry Morris
The Boston Globe: A Civil War-era underworld and its evil genius
Canaan's Tongue By John Wray
The Boston Globe: A death in the family, in the aftermath of war
The Truth of the Matter By Robb Forman Dew
The Boston Globe: In 'Browning,' possession is nine-10ths of the draw
How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life By Mameve Medwed
The Boston Globe: In a tumultuous time, a complicated woman
First Lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis's Civil Wars By Joan E. Cashin
The Boston Globe: Armies of the night
The Castle in the Forest By Norman Mailer
The Boston Globe: Narrative of love and sadness on American plains falls flat
What the Thunder Said By Janet Peery
The Boston Globe: In moving stories, the Iraq war haunts the families of US soldiers
"Refresh, Refresh" by Benjamin Percy
The Boston Globe: Too many voices, vices in Vegas novel
Beautiful Children By Charles Bock
The Boston Globe: Amid the losses of war, unlikely alliances bloom
Skeletons At The Feast By Chris Bohjalian
The Boston Globe: A story of surviving, and accepting, tragedy
The Cure for Grief by Nellie Hermann
The Boston Globe: A cryptic saga of sisters, twisted by a heinous crime
The story sisters By Alice Hoffman
the boston globe: Portrait of the artist
The Diary of A young Girl by Anne Frank
the boston globe: A taste of Trollope
A taste of Trollope by Stephen McCauley
The Boston Globe: Behind the scenes with Aristotle and pupil Alexander
The Golden Mean by Annabel Lyon
Fuse Book Review: A Pair of Darkly Jolly Jolleys
The Sugar Mother and Foxybaby by Elizabeth Jolley
Book Review: 'Making Toast'
Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
Book Review: A Rat's Tale
Rat by Fernanda Eberstadt
Book Review: Classic Coming-of-Age?—The Chester Chronicles
The Chester Chronicles by Kermit Moyer
World Books Review: Chased out of Paradise
Light of My Eye by Paula Jacques
World Books Review: The Brilliance of Ordinary Lives
Ordinary Lives by Josef Skvorecky
World Books Review: An Urgent “February”
February by Lisa Moore
World Books Review: An Australian Masterpiece
Vera Wright Trilogy by Elizabeth Jolley
World Books Review: An uneven ‘Storm’
The Storm by Margriet de Moor
World Books Review: Life Under Mao
Three Sisters by Bi Feiyu
World Books Review: A Masterpiece From Israel
To The End of the Land by David Grossman