With the release of Harry’s House right around the cover, the heartthrob is on everyone’s mind. After years in spotlight, our dear Harry has long been the star of our dreams and fantasies. So much that the fantasy of attending his Love on Tour concert and somehow, across the denizens of screaming fans dressed like […]
One of the most influential writers of our time receives her own sweeping 672 page history. Does it capture her as well as she captured herself? Review by Tom Carson.
Maybe you’re the seventh of twelve, or maybe you’re the first of one; whichever it is, your birth order definitely has an effect on your personality…and, consequently, the stack of paperbacks relaxing on your bedside table. In honor of all those times your little brother borrowed your favorite book and returned it with syrup stains […]
When true literary geniuses leave their mark on the writing world, they often make it seem effortless. We mere mortals are left to ponder, “How is it that one person wrote War and Peace when I can barely get out of the house wearing matching shoes?” But it all begins to make a little more sense […]
Toni Morrison’s new novel, God Help the Child, is slim but dangerous, a blade without a handle. There’s no safety to be found in it: each character—a runaway, an unloved child, an abandoned wife, a felon—balances on the edge of disaster and violence. No one comes from a comfortable home or has a comfortable home to go […]