'The Great Pretender' Investigates A Landmark Moment In Psychiatric History
Some writers search for their signature subjects; Susannah Cahalan had her subject thrust upon her. In 2009, she was a young reporter for the New York Post when, one day, she began feeling like she had...
View ArticleEssayist Ventures 'From The Greeks To Game Of Thrones' — And Back Again
This past summer, I made time to catch up on a book I'd missed when it was published two years ago. Ever since, I've been telling friends, students and random strangers on a train that they must read...
View ArticleSaeed Jones' Eloquent Coming-Of-Age Is Hard To Read — And Harder To Put Down
Editor's note: This book review cites a passage containing a homophobic slur. One could say that Saeed Jones' new memoir, How We Fight for Our Lives , is a classic coming-of-age story. A boy grows up...
View ArticleW.H. Auden's Poem 'September 1, 1939' Still Resonates In Times Of Crisis
It's one of those poems people reach for in times when it feels like the sky is falling. It's also generally regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. " September 1, 1939 ," as its title...
View ArticleAtwood Hints At A Brighter Future In 'Handmaid' Sequel 'The Testaments'
Now that it feels like we're living in a society that I find myself thinking of as "Gilead lite," how could The Testaments, Margaret Atwood's highly anticipated sequel to The Handmaid's Tale, possibly...
View ArticleKatrina Destroyed 'The Yellow House' — But Inequality Eroded Its Foundation
When Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans on Aug. 29, 2005, writer Sarah M. Broom was living in New York City, far away from her hometown and her family. In her extraordinary debut, a memoir called The...
View ArticleA Perfect Summer Book, 'Late Migrations' Reminds Us Of Life's Beauty And...
Essayist Margaret Renkl writes about what she calls "backyard nature," which, to those of us who live in crowded cities, might call to mind creatures to trap or squash, like rats, squirrels, mice and...
View ArticleIf These 2 Titles Remind You Of Masterful Suspense Novels, They Should
Talk about chutzpah. Two female mystery writers have just helped themselves to the titles of two novels written by canonical male authors, without even a please or a thank you. Laura Lippman's new...
View ArticleRooted In History, 'The Nickel Boys' Is A Great American Novel
It's pretty rare for a writer to produce a novel that wins the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award and, then, a scant three years later, bring out another novel that's even more extraordinary....
View ArticleSmart And Propulsive 'Copperhead' Asks: Can You Outrun Your Family's Sins?
Jessup Collins wants out . The main character of Alexi Zentner's tough new novel, Copperhead , Jessup is a 17-year-old high school football star with a decent shot at getting a college scholarship....
View Article'Ask Again, Yes' Is A Profound Yet Unpretentious Family Drama
Mary Beth Keane's new novel is called Ask Again, Yes. What's it called again ? That's what everyone I've raved to about this book has said to me a couple of minutes after I've told them the title. It's...
View ArticleNew Noir By James Ellroy And Denise Mina Is Daredevil Storytelling At Its Finest
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. Two new novels of crime and suspense have our book critic Maureen Corrigan traveling to some dark places in her imagination this summer. Here's her review of James...
View ArticleJurors Generate Drama Of Their Own In Smart, Disturbing 'Body In Question'
Jill Ciment is one of those just-under-the-radar writers. Probably her biggest moment of popular recognition came a few years ago, when her novel, Heroic Measures , was made into a film called 5...
View ArticleAn Immigrant Yearns For Connection In 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous'
Here's an SAT word for you: "aptronym." An aptronym is a proper name that's especially "apt" for describing the person who bears it. Take Usain Bolt , the bolt-of-lighting Jamaican sprinter, or the...
View Article'Fresh Air' Remembers Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Tony Horwitz
TERRY GROSS, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author Tony Horwitz died Monday unexpectedly at the age of 60. He was in the middle of a book...
View ArticleLove, Disappointment Course Through 4 Classic Asian American Novels
Editor's note: This review includes racial epithets that appear in the book. In her foreword to America Is in the Heart — Carlos Bulosan's classic 1946 novel about Filipinx and Mexican migrant workers...
View ArticleAn Author Goes 'Spying On The South' 160 Years After Frederick Law Olmsted
I've been waiting for Tony Horwitz to write another big on-the-road book that crisscrosses the American cultural divide ever since his bestseller, Confederates in the Attic , came out in 1998. For...
View Article'The Beneficiary' Weighs The Emotional Heft Of Inheritance
Many years ago, I worked as an academic day laborer on Philadelphia's Main Line. For those unfamiliar with it, the Main Line — developed in the late 19th century along a railroad route west of the city...
View Article'Lost And Wanted' Grapples With Grief, Regret And The Existence Of God
DAVE DAVIES, HOST: This is FRESH AIR. The heroine of Nell Freudenberger's new novel "Lost And Wanted" is a physicist who finds her rational understanding of the universe challenged by the death of a...
View ArticlePersonal Demons And Class Differences Complicate Love In 'Normal People'
Normal People , Sally Rooney's second novel, opens in 2011 in a small town in the west of Ireland, where two teenagers, improbably, hook up. Marianne is a social pariah: She's really smart, lightly...
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