by Site Owner | May 17, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), General Fiction
Depressing Characters Who Can’t Seem to Do the Right Thing By James Meek Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28.00, 401 pages In The Heart Broke In you will meet a varied cast of characters, such as Ritchie, a philandering husband, father, former rock band...
by Site Owner | May 8, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Nature, Outdoors & Animals
The Life and Death of the Universe By Caleb Scharf Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26.00, 256 pages The story of the universe is a fascinating one that is hard for us to imagine on multiple scales. Gravity’s Engines tells the story of the most...
by michaeld | Jan 7, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), Historical Fiction
Mario Vargas Llosa, Translated by Edith Grossman Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 27.00, 358 pages “You’ve had a very agitated life, my dear.” In this fictionalized biography of the Irish humanitarian and nationalist Roger Casement,...
