Reviews

Here are some book reviews of mine from around the web. These are all straightforward, conventional reviews; longer, more in-depth pieces can by found over on the Essays page. Some of my older pieces are offline now (it happens), so the page focuses mostly on work I’ve done for Bookslut. But if I come upon working links to some of my old stuff, I’ll be adding them, so feel free to check back in later…

Faulkner and His Critics, edited by John N. Duvall. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

In Search of Civilization: Remaking a Tarnished Idea, by John Armstrong. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

Salvation City, by Sigrid Nunez. (Fiction) From Bookslut.

The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, by Eliza Griswold. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

Moscow Noir, edited by Natalia Smirnova and Julia Goumen. (Fiction) From Bookslut.

Mesopotamia, by Arthur Nersesian. (Fiction) From Bookslut. Also available on Powell’s Review-a-Day blog.

Kicking In: Stories, by Richard Wirick. (Fiction) From Bookslut.

Fiction Across Borders: Imagining the Lives of Others in Turn-of-the-Millennium Novels, by Shameem Black. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

Purge, by Sofi Oksanen, translated by Lola Rogers. (Fiction) From Bookslut.

Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting, by Dietmar Elger, translated by Elizabeth M. Solaro. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

The China Lover, by Ian Buruma. (Fiction) From Bookslut.

The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder, by Stephen Elliott. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

Sacred Matters: Celebrity Worship, Sexual Ecstasies, the Living Dead, and Other Signs of Religious Life in the United States, by Gary Laderman. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

Byron in Love: A Short, Daring Life, by Edna O’Brien. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

The Blue Sweater: Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor in an Interconnected World, by Jacqueline Novogratz. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.

A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Martin Johnson Heade, by Christopher Benfey. (Nonfiction) From Bookslut.