Our Souls at NightKent Haruf. Knopf, $24 (192p) ISBN 978-1-101-87589-6
Within the first three pages of this gripping and tender novel, Addie Moore, a 70-year-old widow, invites her neighbor, Louis Waters, to sleep over. “No, not sex,” she clarifies. “I’m talking about getting through the night. And lying warm in bed, companionably.” Although Louis is taken off guard, t... Continue reading »
One of Us: The Story of Anders Breivik and the Massacre in Norway%C3%85sne Seierstad, trans. from the Norwegian by Sarah Death. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (544p) ISBN 978-0-374-27789-5
Journalist Seierstad (The Bookseller of Kabul) delivers a vivid, thoroughly researched, and suspenseful account of the 2011 massacre that killed 77 people in her native Norway. On July 22, Anders Behring Breivik disguised himself as a policeman and set off a bomb in Oslo's government quarter,... Continue reading »
What This Story Needs Is a Pig in a WigEmma J. Virján. Harper, $9.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-232724-6
In a story with echoes of Seuss and Willems, Virján (Nacho the Party Puppy) offers a very funny lesson about the unreliability of narrators. “What this story needs,” the unseen narrator declares, “is a pig.” Fair enough: the pig, pink and drawn in a naïve cartoon style, appears in a spotlig... Continue reading »
Garry Wills. Viking, $27.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-525-42696-7
Is it possible, or even prudent, for an institution that has survived for 2,000 years to change? The Catholic Church, according to Wills (Why I Am a Catholic), professor emeritus at Northwestern University, has changed substantially over the course of its existence and must continue to do s... Continue reading »
The Warren Commission Report: A Graphic InvestigationDan Mishkin, Ernie Col%C3%B3n, and Jerzy Drozd. Abrams Comicarts, $29.95 (160p) ISBN 978-1-41971-230-2
The details of JFK's shattering assassination in November 1963 have been scrutinized in microscopic detail over the half-century that followed. In the immediate wake of the president's murder, President Johnson appointed the seven-member Warren Commission to investigate the shooting, a 10-month inqu... Continue reading »
The Boston GirlAnita Diamant, read by Linda Lavin. Simon & Schuster Audio, , unabridged, 7 CDs, 8 hrs., $29.99 ISBN 978-1-4423-8036-3
Actress Lavin, best known for her star role in the 1970s sitcom Alice, is an ideal narrator for Diamant’s portrait of Addie Baum, a turn-of-the-century girl born to immigrant parents in Boston. Set in the 1980s, the story is framed as an oral history in which Addie describes to her granddau... Continue reading »
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