Category Archives: Fiction

Beloved Review: Toni Morrison’s Haunting Masterpiece on Slavery

Toni Morrison's Pulitzer-winning ghost story about the aftermath of slavery is a towering, unforgettable novel, [...]

Fourth Wing Review: Dragons, Romance and Very Little Subtlety

A fast, addictive dragon-academy romance that earns its hype on pace and chemistry, but clunky [...]

Normal People Review: Rooney’s Precise, Painful Love Story

A spare, exact novel about two young Irish people who keep failing to say what [...]

Convenience Store Woman Review: Short, Strange and Very Funny

A short, deadpan, very funny novel about a woman who only feels normal behind a [...]

One Hundred Years of Solitude Review: A Family Epic Built on Magic

García Márquez's multigenerational saga of the Buendía family is dazzling, funny and exhausting in equal [...]

Project Hail Mary Review: Science, Jokes and a Big Heart

Andy Weir's best novel: a clever, warm, very funny space-survival story built on real problem-solving, [...]

The Old Man and the Sea Review: Hemingway’s Simplest, Starkest Story

Hemingway's short novel about an old Cuban fisherman and a giant marlin is a powerful [...]

To Kill a Mockingbird Review: A Child’s-Eye View of Injustice

A warm, funny and morally direct novel about racism in 1930s Alabama, still worth reading, [...]

The Little Prince Review: A Children’s Book Written for Adults

Saint-Exupéry's short fable about a stranded pilot and a boy from a tiny asteroid is [...]

1984 Review: Orwell’s Blueprint for Total Control Still Holds

Orwell's grim novel about a state that controls truth itself is still the sharpest dystopia [...]

James Review: Everett Gives Jim the Voice Twain Didn’t

Percival Everett retells Huckleberry Finn from Jim's side, and the result is funny, brutal and [...]

Life of Pi Review: A Boy, a Tiger and a Question About Faith

Martel's survival tale of a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger is [...]