All reviews are for The Associated Press unless otherwise noted
Rental House, by Weike Wang, Dec. 10, 2024
This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things, by Naomi Wood, Nov. 25, 2024
Didion & Babitz, by Lili Anolik, Nov. 11, 2024
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? by Anna Montague, Oct. 21, 2024
Don’t Be a Stranger, by Susan Minot, Oct. 15, 2024
Only in America: Al Jolson and The Jazz Singer, by Richard Bernstein, Oct. 10, 2024, The Forward
The Women Behind the Door, by Roddy Doyle, Sept. 9, 2024
Feh, by Shalom Auslander, July 22, 2024
1974: A Personal History, by Francine Prose, June 17, 2024, The Forward
Fire Exit, by Morgan Talty, June 3, 2024
The Playbook, by James Shapiro, May 28, 2024
Goyhood, by Reuven Fenton, May 28, 2024
This Strange Eventful History, by Claire Messud, May 13, 2024
First Love, by Lilly Dancyger, May 6, 2024
Real Americans, by Rachel Khong, April 29, 2024
There’s Going to Be Trouble, by Jen Silverman, April 8, 2024
Headshot, by Rita Bullwinkel, March 11, 2024
Great Expectations, by Vinson Cunningham, March 11, 2024
Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar, Jan. 24, 2024
We Must Not Think of Ourselves, by Lauren Grodstein, Nov. 27, 2023
Chasing Bright Medusas, by Benjamin Taylor, Nov. 14, 2023
The Vulnerables, by Sigrid Nunez, Nov. 6, 2023
One Woman Show, by Christine Coulson, Oct. 16, 2023
How to Say Babylon, by Safiya Sinclair, Oct. 2, 2023
Ladies’ Lunch and Other Stories, Sept. 26, 2023, by Lore Segal, The Forward
The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride, August 7, 2023
Crook Manifesto, by Colson Whitehead, July 17, 2023
I Do Everything I’m Told, by Megan Fernandes, June 20, 2023
I Am Homeless If This Is Not My Home, by Lorrie Moore, June 20, 2023
George: A Magpie Memoir, by Frieda Hughes, June 5, 2023
The Late Americans, by Brandon Taylor, May 22, 2023
Sidle Creek, by Jolene McIlwain, May 15, 2023
Don’t Call Me Home, by Alexandra Auder, May 1, 2023
A Living Remedy, by Nicole Chung, April 3, 2023
Commitment, by Mona Simpson, March 20, 2023
I Have Some Questions for You, by Rebecca Makkai, Feb. 21, 2023
All the Beauty in the World, by Patrick Bringley, Feb. 13, 2023
The Guest Lecture, by Martin Riker, Jan. 23, 2023
Still Pictures, by Janet Malcom, Jan. 9, 2023
Dickens and Prince, by Nick Hornby, Nov. 15, 2022
Now Is Not the Time to Panic, by Kevin Wilson, Nov. 7, 2022
Liberation Day, by George Saunders, Oct. 17, 2022
Lessons, by Ian McEwan, Sept. 12, 2022, USA Today
The Unfolding, by A.M. Homes, Sept. 6, 2022
Diary of a Misfit, by Casey Parks, August 29, 2022
Kiki Man Ray, by Mark Braude, August 15, 2022
Diary of a Void, by Emi Yagi, August 8, 2022
Tracy Flick Can’t Win, by Tom Perrotta, June 6, 2022
Either/Or, by Elif Batuman, May 23, 2022
Search, by Michelle Huneven, April 25, 2022
In Love, by Amy Bloom, March 5, 2022, USA Today
Free Love, by Tessa Hadley, Feb. 14, 2022
Foreverland, by Heather Havrilesky, Feb. 7, 2022
Lost & Found, by Kathryn Schulz, Jan. 10, 2022
These Precious Days, by Ann Patchett, Nov. 22, 2021, USA Today
Orwell’s Roses, by Rebecca Solnit, Oct. 18, 2021
Oh William!, by Elizabeth Strout, Oct. 18, 2021
Fight Night, by Miriam Toews, Oct. 3, 2021, USA Today
Harlem Shuffle, by Colson Whitehead, Sept. 13, 2021
Matrix, by Lauren Groff, Sept. 7, 2021
On Freedom, by Maggie Nelson, Sept. 5, 2021, USA Today
Afterparties, by Anthony Veasna So, August 2, 2021
Objects of Desire, by Clare Sestanovich, June 28, 2021
Phase Six, by Jim Shepard, May 17, 2021
Second Place, by Rachel Cusk, May 3, 2021
Why Didn’t You Just Do What You Were Told?, by Jenny Diski, April 19, 2021
First Person Singular, by Haruki Murakami, April 5, 2021
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, by Alexander Nemerov, March 22, 2021
Women Street Photographers, edited by Gulnara Samoilova, March 8, 2021
Kill Shot, by Jason Dearen, Feb. 22, 2021
Land of Big Numbers, by Te-Ping Chen, Feb. 1, 2021
Wild Swims, by Dorthe Nors, Feb. 1, 2021
Let Me Tell You What I Mean, by Joan Didion, Jan. 25, 2021
The Doctors Blackwell, by Janice Nimura, Jan. 18, 2021, USA Today
A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, by George Saunders, Jan. 11, 2021
The Office of Historical Corrections, by Danielle Evans, Nov. 8, 2020, USA Today
To Be a Man, by Nicole Krauss, Nov. 2, 2020
Our Last Season: A Writer, A Fan, A Friendship, by Harvey Araton, Oct. 26, 2020
Homeland Elegies, by Ayad Akhtar, Sept. 14, 2020
Having and Being Had, by Eula Biss, Sept. 2, 2020
Memorial Drive, by Natasha Trethewey, July 26, 2020, USA Today
Death in Her Hands, by Ottessa Moshfegh, June 15, 2020
Here We Are: My Friendship with Philip Roth, by Benjamin Taylor, May 19, 2020
Me & Patsy Kickin’ Up Dust, by Loretta Lynn, April 8, 2020
Shakespeare in a Divided America, by James Shapiro, March 3, 2020
Rebel Cinderella, by Adam Hochschild, March 3, 2020
Scratched, by Elizabeth Tallent, Feb. 26, 2020
Apartment, by Teddy Wayne, Feb. 25, 2020
These Fevered Days, by Martha Ackmann, Feb. 25, 2020
From Sea to Stormy Sea: 17 Stories Inspired by Great American Paintings, ed. Lawrence Block, Dec. 2, 2019
Parisian Lives, by Deirdre Bair, Nov. 11, 2019
The Second Founding, by Eric Foner, Sept. 16, 2019
The Grammarians, by Cathleen Schine, Sept. 3, 2019
Red at the Bone, by Jacqueline Woodson, Sept. 3, 2019
The Scandal of the Century and Other Writings, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, May 15, 2019
kaddish.com, by Nathan Englander, March 25, 2019
Foursome: Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Paul Strand, Rebecca Salsbury, by Carolyn Burke, March 7, 2019
Nobody’s Looking at You: Essays, by Janet Malcolm, Feb. 19, 2019
Antisemitism: Here and Now, by Deborah E. Lipstadt, Jan. 30, 2019
The End of the End of the Earth: Essays, by Jonathan Franzen, Nov. 13, 2018
Evening in Paradise: More Stories, by Lucia Berlin, Nov. 5, 2018
Read & Riot: A Pussy Riot Guide to Activism, by Lucia Berlin, Nov. 5, 2018
Lake Success, by Gary Shteyngart, Sept. 4, 2018
A Terrible Country, by Keith Gessen, July 9, 2018
A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety, by Donald Hall, July 9, 2018
Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler, July 9, 2018
Upstate, by James Wood, June 4, 2018
Property: Stories Between Two Novellas, by Lionel Shriver, April 23, 2018
Berenice Abbott: A Life in Photography, by Julia Van Haaften, April 9, 2018
Girls Burn Brighter, by Shobha Rao, March 13, 2018, USA Today
A Tokyo Romance, by Ian Buruma, March 5, 2018
Debriefing: Collected Stories, by Susan Sontag, Nov. 13, 2017
Heather, The Totality, by Matthew Weiner, Nov. 6, 2017
The Ninth Hour, by Alice McDermott, Sept. 18, 2017
Forest Dark, by Nicole Krauss, Sept. 11, 2017
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, by Roxane Gay, June 12, 2017
Chuck Klosterman X: A Highly Specific, Defiantly Incomplete History of the Early 21st Century, by Chuck Klosterman, May 15, 2017
A Really Big Lunch, by Jim Harrison, March 23, 2017
The Idiot, by Elif Batuman, March 13, 2017
Ray & Joan, by Lisa Napoli, Nov. 14, 2016
Love for Sale: Pop Music in America, by David Hajdu, Oct. 17, 2016
Bright, Precious Days, by Jay McInerney, August 1, 2016
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst, by Jeffrey Toobin, August 1, 2016
Vinegar Girl, by Anne Tyler, June 20, 2016
Ordinarily Well: The Case for Antidepressants, by Peter D. Kramer, June 6, 2016
Zero K, by Don DeLillo, May 2, 2016
Kill ‘Em and Leave, by James McBride, April 4, 2016
Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape, by Peggy Orenstein, March 28, 2016
My Name is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout, Jan. 11, 2016
Alive, Alive Oh! And Other Things That Matter, by Diana Athill, Jan. 4, 2016
The Japanese Lover, by Isabel Allende, Nov. 2, 2015
MJ: The Genius of Michael Jackson, by Steve Knopper, Oct. 19, 2015
Drinking in America: Our Secret History, by Susan Cheever, Oct. 12, 2015
Thirteen Ways of Looking, by Colum McCann, Oct. 12, 2015
The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman, August 3, 2015
The Love Object, by Edna O’Brien, July 10, 2015
Playing to the Gallery: Helping Contemporary Art in its Struggle to Be Understood, by Edna O’Brien, July 10, 2015
In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art, by Sue Roe, April 20, 2015
Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi, by Hayden Herrera, April 20, 2015
There is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction, by Saul Bellow, edited by Benjamin Taylor, March 30, 2015
A Spool of Blue Thread, by Anne Tyler, Feb. 9, 2015
The First Bad Man, by Miranda July, Jan. 12, 2015
Family Furnishings, by Alice Munro, Dec. 8, 2014
David Hockney: The Biography, by Christopher Simon Sykes, Nov. 10, 2014
Rendez-vous with Art, by Philippe de Montebello, Martin Gayford, Sept. 30, 2014
Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh, by John Lahr, Sept. 22, 2014
The Betrayers, by David Bezmozgis, Sept. 22, 2014
Women in Clothes, by Sheila Heti et al., Sept. 3, 2014.
Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, by Chris Bohjalian, July 7, 2014.
The Last Kind Words Saloon, by Larry McMurtry, May 6, 2014.
The Snow Queen, by Michael Cunningham, May 5, 2014.
Updike, by Adam Begley, April 7, 2014.
My Life in Middlemarch, by Rebecca Mead, Jan. 27, 2014.
Andrew’s Brain, by E.L. Doctorow, Jan. 13, 2014.
Little Failure, by Gary Shteyngart, Jan. 6, 2014.
Brown Dog Novellas, by Jim Harrison, Dec. 2, 2013.
Amsterdam: A History of the World’s Most Liberal City, by Russell Shorto, Oct. 21, 2013
Quiet Dell, by Jayne Anne Phillips, Oct. 14, 2013
Goat Mountain, by David Vann, Sept. 9, 2013
Dissident Gardens, by Jonathan Lethem, Sept. 9, 2013
After Her, by Joyce Maynard, Aug. 19, 2013
& Sons, by David Gilbert, July 22, 2013
The Woman Upstairs, by Claire Messud, April 29, 2013
The Interestings, by Meg Wolitzer, April 8, 2013
The Book of My Lives, by Aleksandar Hemon, March 20, 2013
Saul Steinberg: A Biography, by Deirdre Bair, Nov. 20, 2012
Sweet Tooth, by Ian McEwan, Nov. 7, 2012
What Are You Looking At? The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art, by Will Gompertz, Oct. 28, 2012
The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, by David Skinner, Oct. 12, 2012
Vagina: A New Biography, by Naomi Wolf, Sept. 19, 2012
Winter Journal, by Paul Auster, Aug. 24, 2012
Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists, by Kay Larson, July 7, 2012
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens, by Andrea Wulf, May 1, 2012
A Magnificent Obsession: Victoria, Albert, and the Death That Changed the British Monarchy, by Helen Rappaport, March 20, 2012
Behind the Beautiful Forevers, by Katherine Boo, Feb. 6, 2012
The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by her Beauty to Notice, by M.G. Lord, Feb. 3, 2012
A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing, by Lawrence M. Krauss, Jan. 11, 2012
Kayak Morning: Reflections on Love, Grief, and Small Boats, by Roger Rosenblatt, Jan. 3, 2012
Mrs. Nixon: A Novelist Imagines a Life, by Ann Beattie, Nov. 14, 2011
Charles Dickens: A Life, by Claire Tomalin, Oct. 26, 2011
Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane, by Andrew Graham-Dixon, Sept. 15, 2011
Starting From Happy, by Patricia Marx, Aug. 23, 2011
Wendy and the Lost Boys: The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein, by Julie Salamon, Aug. 21, 2011
State of Wonder, by Ann Patchett, June 9, 2011
Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias, by Don Van Natta Jr., June 1, 2011
Stan Musial: An American Life, by George Vecsey, May 10, 2011
An Accidental Sportswriter: A Memoir, by Robert Lipsyte, May 2, 2011
To End All Wars, by Adam Hochschild, May 2, 2011
Joan Mitchell, Lady Painter, by Patricia Albers, May 2, 2011
The Summer Without Men, by Siri Hustvedt, April 26, 2011
Reading My Father: A Memoir, by Alexandra Styron, April 18, 2011
You Think That’s Bad: Stories, by Jim Shepard, March 23, 2011
Modigliani: A Life, by Meryle Secrest, March 1, 2011
Between a Rock and a Hot Place: Why Fifty Is Not the New Thirty, By Tracey Jackson, Feb. 14, 2011
The Clockwork Universe: Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the Birth of the Modern World, By Tracey Jackson, Feb. 14, 2011
Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia, by Michael Korda, Nov. 16, 2010
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer, by Siddhartha Mukherjee, Nov. 11, 2010