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Sarah Winman’s “Tin Man” is Heartbreaking and Tender

A tender and beautiful story, Sarah Winman's novel Tin Man is heartbreaking and wonderfully moving, focusing on the relationship between two people, first as young boys and then as adults, with an exquisitely written and introspective look into the experiences and intimacies that are shared in a relationship so close. At twelve…
Jennifer Blankfein
June 11, 2018
Fiction

Whitehead’s Latest Captures Jim Crow-Era Florida

Following Colson Whitehead's critically acclaimed 2016 novel The Underground Railroad, expectations were set very high for the author's next work. Fortunately, Whitehead delivers in his searing new novel, The Nickel Boys (Doubleday). Set during the advent of the Civil Rights movement, The Nickel Boys centers on Elwood Curtis, an up-and-coming African…
Jessica McEntee
July 15, 2019
Fiction

Cohabitation Breeds Resentment in “Apartment”

New York City is fast-paced and marked by a seemingly endless variety of people and circumstances, but if there is one thing predictable about life in the city it’s high rent. All city-dwellers have come to expect this, but the MFA students at Columbia are particularly aware of the inconvenience.…
Paige Vigliarolo
February 26, 2020
Fiction

Tall Poppy Review: Cheated But Not Broken

You don’t have to be wearing rose-colored glasses to be blind to the flaws of the people you love: Sophie Bloom learns this the worst possible way when her forty-second birthday party culminates with the revelation that her devoted husband Gabe is anything but. Not only has Gabe cheated on…
Camille Pagan
May 3, 2019
Fiction

Award-Winning Poet Ocean Vuong’s Debut Novel

On Earth, We’re Briefly Gorgeous (Penguin Press) is a hallucinogenic and free-wheeling meditation on addiction, violence and love, composed as a series of letters to an illiterate immigrant mother. Written by award-winning poet Ocean Vuong, this is ultimately a book about language and memory, the challenge of channeling and crystalizing…
Jessica McEntee
June 4, 2019
Fiction

Sisters’ Vanishing Act Conjures Fears in Post-Soviet Era

In Julia Phillips' affecting debut novel Disappearing Earth (Knopf), two sisters, ages eleven and eight, go missing one afternoon in a once-cloistered town at the northeastern edge of Russia. The effects of their disappearance play out for the following year among residents in this community, dredging up fears especially among…
Jessica McEntee
May 14, 2019
Fiction

Video: Missed It? Interview with Ken Murray and Eulogy

The controlled and calm life of William Oaks is shattered when his parents die suddenly in a car accident. A reclusive paper conservator at a renowned Toronto museum, William must face the obsessions and denials that have formed him: delusional family history, religious fundamentalism, and get-rich-quick schemes. Memory and facts…
BookTrib
December 1, 2015