Reviews by Roberta Silman
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
Alfred Dreyfus: The Man at the Center of the Affair by Maurice Samuels
The Hebrew Teacher by Maya Arad
The Road from Belhaven by Margot Livesey
How to Build a Boat by Elaine Feeney
The House of Doors by Tan Twan Eng
Democracy Awakening, Notes on the State of America by Heather Cox Richardson
Life After Life by Kate Atkinson
Kantika by Elizabeth Graver
Fearless Women: Feminist Patriots From Abigail Adams to Beyoncé by Elizabeth Cobbs
All Sorts of Lives: Katherine Mansfield and the Art of Risking Everything by Claire Harman
Natural History by Andrea Barrett
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.
An homage to Grace Paley, one of the great American writers of the 20th century.
Small Things Like These and Foster by Claire Keegan
Chéri and The End of Chéri by Colette, Translated by Rachel Careau
Mr. Mani by A.B. Yehoshua
Hemingway's Widow: The Life and Legacy of Mary Welsh Hemingway by Timothy Christian
Letters to Camondo by Edmund de Waal
The Wrong End of the Telescope by Rabih Alameddine
Persist by Elizabeth Warren and Here, Right Matters, An American Story by Alexander S. Vindman
Hemingway by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick on PBS
Leopoldstadt by Tom Stoppard
Renato! by Eugene Mirabelli
Apeirogon by Colum McCann
Homeland Elegies by Ayad Akhtar
Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence, 1920
The Tunnel by A.B. Yehoshua
Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 and Let's See, Writings on Art From The New Yorker by Peter Schjeldahl
Immigrant Architect — Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream by Berta de Miguel, Kent Diebolt, Virginia Lorente (Illustrations)
Invisible Years: A Family's Collected Account of Separation and Survival During the Holocaust in the Netherlands by Daphne Geismar
The Planter of Modern Life, Louis Bromfield and the Seeds of a Food Revolution by Stephen Heyman
Franci's War, A Woman's Story of Survival by Franci Rabinek Epstein
Tightrope, Americans Reaching for Hope by Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn
A Grief Sublime by Beth Robbins
Blowout by Rachel Maddow
Lampedusa by Steven Price
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit (Ecco, 2007) and The Arrogant Years (HarperCollins, 2011) by Lucette Lagnado
The Waverly Gallery by Kenneth Lonergan
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
Anthony Powell, Dancing to the Music of Time by Hilary Spurling
Edith Wharton in France by Claudine Lesage / Becoming by Michelle Obama
Washington Black by Esi Edugyan
Your Duck Is My Duck by Deborah Eisenberg
American Warnings by Philip Roth
Morning After Grace by Carey Crim. Directed by Regge Life. Staged by Shakespeare & Company Elayne P. Bernstein Theatre, Lenox, MA
Anna Christie by Eugene O’Neill
Virginia Woolf’s Orlando adapted by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by A. Nora Long. Staged by the Lyric Stage Company of Boston
Pure Hollywood by Christine Schutt and Neapolitan Chronicles by Anna Maria Ortese
Life? or Theatre? by Charlotte Salomon
Surviving Jersey, Danger and Insanity in the Garden State by Scott Loring Sanders
We Were Eight Years in Power, An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Souvenir, A Fantasia on the Life of Florence Foster Jenkins by Stephen Temperley
Love, Madness & Scandal, The Life of Frances Villiers, Viscountess Purbeck by Johanna Luthman
Birdcage Walk by Helen Dunmore
Shostakovich and the Black Monk—A Russian Fantasy at Tanglewood’s Ozawa Hall
The Songs We Know Best, John Ashbery’s Early Life by Karin Roffman
Women in the World of Frederick Douglass by Leigh Fought
Stranger in a Strange Land, Searching for Gershom Scholem and Jerusalem by George Prochnik
Shooting Creek and Other Stories by Scott Loring Sanders
The Year of the Comet by Sergei Lebedev
The Invention of Angela Carter by Edmund Gordon
Appreciating the work of William Trevor
Song of Slaves in the Desert by Alan Cheuse