Lost Memory of Skin

“Russell Banks really does know how to pull his readers into a dark, dark world only to deliver us into the light.” (Boston Globe )

The Reserve : a Novel

Publishers Weekly: Like Banks's two most recent novels-Cloudsplitter, a 1998 book about the abolitionist John Brown, and The Darling, about the wages of '60s radicalism-The Reservelooks backward, this time to the 1930s. The reserve of the title is an Adirondack preserve, a membership-only sanctuary where the very rich partake of woodland leisure, hunting, fishing, dining, […]