Half the Sky : Turning Oppression Into Opportunity For Women Worldwide
The Washington Post – Carolyn See: Half the Sky is a call to arms, a call for help, a call for contributions, but also a call for volunteers. It asks us to open our eyes to this enormous humanitarian issue. It does so with exquisitely crafted prose and sensationally interesting material. It provides us with […]
Old School
Quite a Year For Plums : a Novel
Pain Management
Licks of Love : Short Stories
The Amateur Marriage
Back When We Were Grownups : a Novel
A Gate At the Stairs
The New York Times Book Review – Jonathan Lethem: ?more expansive than either of her two previous novels?also a novel that brandishes some "big" material: racism, war, etc.?albeit in Moore's resolutely insouciant key?Great writers usually present us with mysteries, but the mystery Lorrie Moore presents consists of appearing genial, joshing and earnest at once?unmysterious, in […]
That Old Cape Magic
The New York Times – Roxana Robinson: Russo has written six previous novels?and we've come to expect certain things: a complicated skein of plotlines, deep connection to place, and affection for the large cast of characters who blunder and struggle through his pages. That Old Cape Magic does not disappoint?Family, family, family is the subject […]
Once On a Moonless Night
Barbara Hoffert – Library Journal "Once on a moonless night a lone man is traveling…" and, stumbling, clings to the side of an abyss. No, this doesn't actually happen in Dai's magisterial new work; it's reputedly the beginning of a lost Buddhist sutra, written on a scrap of silk belonging to China's last emperor. As […]