REVIEW: A Novel About an Ambitious Young Miami Man Whose Role Models are Scarface and Ahab
/Fresh out of High School, an Everyman Seeks to Become a Kingpin
Read MoreFresh out of High School, an Everyman Seeks to Become a Kingpin
Read MoreA Novel that is Better-Written, and of Course Funnier, than Upton Sinclair’s ‘The Jungle’
Read MoreA Story of Art, Unspeakable Horrors, and Loss
Read MoreAnxieties, Insecurities, and Questions of Life and Death
Read MoreWe Make the Mistake of Continually Thinking Politics Cannot Get any Worse
Read MoreContemplating a Return of What Lincoln Called “the Same Old Serpent”
Read MoreSevigny’s Book Adds Two University of Michigan Botanists to the Roster of Explorers.
Read MoreFuminori Nakamura has written an absorbing, mind-bending psychological thriller
Read MoreIt’s a Genre of Book We Need More of: Primers on How Government Actually Works
Read MoreEverything that Rises Must Converge in this Slim, Fulfilling Book
Read MoreIt was an impossibly long road from not being enslaved to achieving full freedom
Read MoreAmerica’s Great Emancipator Could Also be a Wily Political Infighter
Read MoreA Tale from the Days When England and Spain Competed Bitterly for Dominance in the Americas
Read MoreWhen Did the Organizing Principle of the G.O.P. Become “Delusion”?
Read MoreShould You Write a Book About a Woman Who Sought to Avoid the World’s Harsh Gaze?
Read MoreThe Sketchy Accusations that She Exchanged Sex for Promotions are Only the Beginning
Read MoreAs in the Novel Where We First Met Her, Tracy’s Lack of “Likability” Creates Problems
Read MoreAnd Millard Tells the Story of Two Explorers, who Were Bitter Rivals
Read MoreIncluding One, Being Adapted by Hulu, in which Russian Bots Woo Women on a Dating App — and Steal their Data
Read MoreAfter His Release, He Died of a Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound with $1.76 in Liquid Assets to His Name
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