Peter Davis knows Hollywood from the inside and has written a splendid novel about the great days of Tinsel Town with the kind of passion you rarely see anywhere these days.
This is a powerful, intensely felt short novel about the lives of ordinary people by a very young Irish writer.
Erebus is wonderful, original book that defies categorization.
The Bridal Chair will not only answer many questions about this complicated, famous family; like Chagall's best work, it will also linger in the mind.
Kudos to the Celebrity Series for bringing this interesting and innovative young musician to Boston and kudos to Cameron Carpenter for such a fascinating few hours.
Göran Rosenberg has written a calm yet passionate account of events after Auschwitz, a memoir marked by great intelligence and equally great emotional intensity.
Daisy Hay turns her sharp yet sympathetic eye on Mary Anne and Benjamin Disraeli, whose marriage seemed unlikely at the start but which grew into something not only strange but, even in mode…
Breath & Imagination is a realistic, moving, and very revealing take on what it means to be a black artist in America, both then and now.
After reading this scholarly and accessible biography, I am convinced that Storm Jameson's life is a must for anyone fascinated by the history of women writers in the 20th century.
What this magisterial biography does so well is give us an even-handed portrait of a remarkable, flawed man who is obsessed with a need to help the disenfranchised.
Gabriel is a searing experience to read, filled with sadness but also humor and forbearance, and may give comfort to parents who are dealing with difficult children.
Lila is an ambitious book that is deeply flawed and not nearly in the same class as Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Gilead.
Elizabeth Harrower's In Certain Circles is a stunning novel about class and marriage and power; Can Xue's The Last Lover is a tedious surrealistic farce.
We become participants in a chapter of American art history that raises important questions about what fame means, how much a part luck plays, and how we treat our artists. .
Precision and obvious competence were only part of the story. What made this concert from The Young Artists Orchestra so special was the joy conveyed by these fledgling musicians, who, it is…
A Replacement Life explores what America means to Russian immigrants whose cunning and sophistication often lead them into trouble, but whose plight is being recorded in fiction by their ama…
Singer Ute Gfrerer name should be spread far and wide to anyone -- Jewish or not -- who is interested in the music of that period, for this is first-rate work that should be heard for genera…
Taken as a whole, "The Poets' Wives" is a fascinating, brave novel whose love of poetry breathes through all three sections.
Beneath the humor and the warmth and the charm of this novel, author Eve Harris bears witness to an existence far more complex and troubled than Ultra-Orthodox Jews might like to admit.
Perhaps a movie such as "The Grand Budapest Hotel, which is much more than a zany comedy, can lead us back, as I think director Wes Anderson may have intended, to the fabulous writing of Ste…
"To the End of the Land" is about the devastation of war, how war erodes the human spirit, yet how that spirit is far more resilient that we may have ever suspected.
Given all the terror and brutality we have lived through just in the thirteen years of this new, 21st century, the story of people running drugs back in the '70s doesn't seem to have much ur…
When the septuagenarian protagonist of this novel finally gets out of her claustrophobic apartment, everything changes.
We become increasingly aware that we are in the mind of a doctor who has taught himself to observe carefully, who has an amazingly strong will to survive, and who chooses not to waste precio…
Aminatta Forna has given us a novel that belies its modest premise, a book about how the human mind protects itself by not knowing, yet sometimes, due to unexpected circumstances, comes to t…