Book Review: Paradais
Fernanda Melchor turns a luxury development into a pressure chamber of class resentment, entitlement, and misogyny.
Book Review: The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes brings Romantic science alive through discovery, ambition, and the unstable boundary between wonder and fear.
Book Review: Playing in the Dark
Toni Morrison changes the question of race in American literature by examining the imagination that defines itself as white.
Book Review: The Cider House Rules
John Irving tests the distance between moral rules and human need in a generous, sometimes overengineered novel.
Book Review: What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
Carver's spare stories turn ordinary conversations into uneasy tests of love, loneliness, and the limits of language.
Book Review: The Shards
Bret Easton Ellis revisits privileged teenage Los Angeles in a thriller where nostalgia, desire, and suspicion contaminate memory.
