My review of Ben Hopkins’ novel Cathedral is posted at Historical Novel Society. Cathedral takes place in, as the author says, “the fictional medieval Rhineland city…
A Wild Winter Swan, by Gregory Maguire, takes place at Christmas time, 1960s Manhattan. Here’s a little album of some of the places visited by…
The meat of the United States Census, taken every ten years, is the body of statistics drawn up on the people questioned. Yet the questions…
My write-up of Dave Eggers’ The Parade is up at The Millions. Read it here. The plot of the book is deceptively simple: a guy…
Amazon | Indie bookstore While the focus of Peter Rachleff’s Black Labor in Richmond is, obviously, on black labor, the book crosses race lines to…
Publishing history crowns Manhattan as the enduring capital of the American publishing world, despite the many changes the internet has wrought. Before the twentieth century,…