Reviews of a superb debut novel about a lost voyage, the latest from master Kazuo Ishiguro, and a vast tome by gay rights activist Larry Kramer, all in the August issue of HNS.

Reviews of two novels about brutal Communist regimes and one non-fiction celebration of the West Point class of 1915 from the May issue of HNR.

Leslie Parry’s richly rendered debut novel will have you soaking in her delicious language.

Author Skip Horack tells a poignant story of a lost man’s journey toward possible redemption.

Author Bryan Crockett manages his own dazzling bit of alchemical wizardry, using one of literary history’s earliest rock stars, John Donne, to lead this engaging, intriguing, and fully realized bit of who-can-say-it’s-not-so alternative history.

A chilling story of abuse ignored in the Catholic Church.

  This review was originally published on 3 December 2014 in the Washington Independent Review of Books. What do a cliché-spouting Korean pop star, a love-struck weapons dealer, a brutally vengeful land developer, a haughty-but-position-hungry professor, and a 700-year-old carving of a large woman on a small horse have in common? They all figure prominently […]

  This review was originally published 20 November 2014 in the Washington Independent Review of Books. Living in a swanky waterfront highrise, cruising in a sweet ride, pulling in big bucks from a cushy (if mind-numbing) job, rubbing elbows with the mega-rich: not hard to take, you say? Then you haven’t read The Dog: A […]

  This review was originally published 24 September 2014 in the Washington Independent Review of Books. By the time a book is in galley form and sent out for review, there is almost always a synopsis on Amazon or Edelweiss that describes the plot. For The Shimmering Go-Between, Lee Klein’s debut novel (Atticus Books, 295 […]