In Texas, where distance can acquire the force of destiny, movement is easily mistaken for progress. Cole Burnett, the dangerously appealing center of Babette Fraser Hale’s novel-in-stories, Narcissi, is always going somewhere.
“You always know that there’s something behind what’s being shown,” Steena tells me, recalling her years in ministry. That instinct, the suspicion that every polished surface conceals a crack, powers her latest novel, When You Tell.
In 1966, Jerome Loving returned from Vietnam to a country that seemed scarcely to have noticed his absence. There had been no victory, and there would be no homecoming of the sort associated with the Second World War, which he calls “the good war.” America was carrying on.
A crime reporter makes an awkward tenant for a haunted mind. His occupation requires the reassuring distinction between what happened and what somebody believes happened. But give him a suspicious sound and certainty may become a professional liability.
In Susan L. Katz’s Pole Dancers at the Red Barn, The Red Barn offers no quick cure for pain, inherited or otherwise. Its promise is smaller and more credible. It
If you’ve seen Gooodfellas, you’ve seen Ed McDonald. How did the prosecutor become a movie star? We’ve got the story.
Andru Reeve discusses the biggest rumor of the rock era. Did Paul McCartney die? Was he replaced by a double?
Julie Esther Fisher’s journey -back- to writing mirrors a grain of sand’s journey towards becoming a pearl.
As Ronan O’Connell suggests in his quietly subversive new book, Hidden in Plain Sight, the deeper truth of our most familiar monuments is not what we see, but what we have failed to notice.
Six years ago, Chris Cheng was preparing to demonstrate vintage Second World War firearms on a televised talent show. He searched for “Guns of World War II Asian Americans” and found a history he had never encountered in a California classroom.
In the winter of 1944, Ray Trautman, a librarian by profession, found himself in an incredible situation. Sent to Europe by General Dwight D. Eisenhower to determine what American soldiers wanted to read, he wandered into the German offensive that would become the Battle of the Bulge.
At first glance, Sugar Sand Land arrives dressed for vacation. But Dr. Patricia Leavy has tucked a set of contemporary anxieties into the beach bag.
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