Fiction: Falling by T.J. Newman
Summer. Great for lounging by the pool or the ocean or on the sun porch, your nose in a good book. And of course what […]
Articles by Tony Buchsbaum
Fiction: Crossings by Alex Landrigan
Over the years, there have been a good number of books that delight with messing with your mind. Think: House of Blue Leaves. Think: The […]
American Dirty
Maybe you’ve heard about the controversy surrounding the new novel, American Dirt (Flatiron). In case you haven’t, here’s a quick rundown. Written by Jeanine Cummins, […]
New Fiction: The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
On a wall in my apartment is a cast iron sign. Carved through it is a row of boxwood hedges, and painted on it, on […]
New Orleans Comes Alive in City of a Million Dreams
I grew up in New Orleans in the 1960s, and I left in 1990. As I write this, it occurs to me that I have […]
New CD from Dear Evan Hansen Actor
It’s possible you’ve never heard of Michael Lee Brown, but you’re about to—and I don’t mean just here. Michael appears on Broadway at least […]
New Fiction: Need To Know by Karen Cleveland
Of the new novel, Need to Know (Ballantine), thriller writer Lee Child said, “If you read chapter one, you’ll read chapter two. If you read […]
Fiction: The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin
In Chloe Benjamin’s luminous new novel, The Immortalists (Putnam), four siblings, all children, seek out a woman who, they’ve heard, can tell each of them […]
SF/F: Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
You’ve Never Read Anything Like Dark Matter. There. I said it. The new novel by Blake Crouch, is a terrifying, enthralling, lightning-fast, brilliant book. You […]
New Fiction: The House of Secrets
by Brad Meltzer
Brad Meltzer’s new thriller, written with Tod Goldberg, is called The House of Secrets (Grand Central). The title comes from the name of a television program […]
