Review: ‘The Last Days of California’ by Mary Miller
Some family road trips wind toward campsites or amusement parks or Grandma's house, but in Mary Miller's debut novel, "The Last Days of California," the Metcalfs — Mom, Dad, 15-year-old...
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Review: ‘The Last Days of California’ by Mary Miller
Some family road trips wind toward campsites or amusement parks or Grandma's house, but in Mary Miller's debut novel, "The Last Days of California," the Metcalfs — Mom, Dad, 15-year-old...
The year ahead in books
Regardless of how many or few activities you've put on the 2014 calendar, consider yourself booked: The new year brings with it a steady stream of intriguing releases, from inventive...
The year ahead in books
Regardless of how many or few activities you've put on the 2014 calendar, consider yourself booked: The new year brings with it a steady stream of intriguing releases, from inventive...
Review: ‘Want Not’ by Jonathan Miles
At the outset of "Want Not," the second novel by Jonathan Miles ("Dear American Airlines"), a freegan named Talmadge is rooting around for treasure in other people's trash. The snow-dusted...
Review: ‘We Are Water’ by Wally Lamb
In Wally Lamb's latest novel, "We Are Water," outsider artist Annie Oh has left Orion Oh, her psychologist husband of 27 years, to marry a sophisticated, Manhattan-based art dealer named...
Review: ‘The Daylight Gate’ by Jeanette Winterson
Many Americans associate witch trials with colonial Massachusetts, mass hysteria, Arthur Miller's play "The Crucible" and the 1996 film adaptation of the play starring a wild-eyed Winona Ryder. It's easy...
Review: ‘An Impenetrable Screen of Purest Sky’ by Dan Beachy-Quick
Dan Beachy-Quick's debut novel is an impressionistic story about a disillusioned man trying to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Actually, that's a description of Terrence Malick's 2011 film...
Fall book preview
"What are we going to do?" Sloane asks in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," after climbing into his "borrowed" Ferrari convertible. "The question isn't 'what are we going to do,'" Ferris...
Fall book preview
"What are we going to do?" Sloane asks in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off," after climbing into his "borrowed" Ferrari convertible. "The question isn't 'what are we going to do,'" Ferris...