Book Reviews
Review: The Maniac
Three years after Benjamín Labatut’s When We Cease to Understand the World debuted as [...]
Review: “The Commissions”
Author and artist, Paul Madonna has become something of a cult figure in San [...]
Books: “Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome” (revisited)
My esteemed colleague at “The American Magazine” is the author of a book many [...]
Forbidden Notebook
As Mother’s Day approaches, we may expect the usual demand for flowers, candy, and [...]
In Other Words
I resisted reading this book when it was first released to much fanfare in [...]
Homage to Harjo
I had the privilege of hearing U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo speak and read [...]
Book review ‘Safekeeping: Some True Stories from a Life ‘
[dropcap]A[/dropcap]bigail Thomas's book is like comfort food. Through her spare, elegant prose — at [...]
The Polar Bear Expedition
Over the past decade, author James Carl Nelson has filled a lamentable gap and [...]
Dottoressa: An American Doctor in Rome
As a reviewer, I've read a lot of entries in what I might call [...]
The Book Staff
The Book Staff consists of a handful of writers who contribute regularly review and a few who chip in from time to time. Names are withheld because books matter more than the names of their reviewers.